|
|
‘This
group is making war for the sake of
mother earth.’
|
|
a
|
: a
d l ba khlay mulachE -ni bagยตy
That group
war do-pres. Salary-of for
‘That
group is making war for the sake of salary.’
|
|
|
| 3.1.1.3.
These four adjectives combine with different nouns and adverbs to
give rise to several other pronominal forms. i combines with
phuru ‘time’, yaN‘place’,
hay ‘quality’ and k ‘this’ and u combines with phuru
‘time’, k
‘this’, and and a combine with all the remaining forms. |
| The pronominal adjectives
and adverbs in combination with demonstrative pronouns are listed
below: |
|
Proximate
|
Remote
|
The noun
combined
|
|
i-phuru
|
a-phuru
|
phuru
|
|
‘this
time’
|
‘that
time’
|
‘time’
|
i-ya
|
a-ya
|
ya
|
|
‘this
side’
|
‘that
side’
|
‘direction’
|
|
i-hay
|
a-hay
|
hay
|
|
‘like
this’ ‘like that’ ‘quality’
|
|
|
-r
|
a-r
|
r
|
|
‘here’
|
‘there’
|
‘place’
|
-suk
|
a-suk
|
suk
|
|
‘this
much’
|
‘that
much’
|
‘quantity’
|
|
|
| The
addition of the three third person pronouns mentioned above to the
demonstrative pronouns gives the following derived pronouns. It may
be noted that there are co-occurrence restrictions between these pronouns
and the demonstrative adjectives. The demonstrative adjectives used
in the psychological plane are combined with the human and animate
pronouns and the demonstrative adjectives used in the physical plane
are combined with the inanimate pronouns. |
-b
|
a-b
|
b
|
|
‘this-he,
she’
|
‘that-he,
she’
|
‘human’
|
-m
|
a-m
|
m
|
|
‘this-he,
she’
|
‘that-he,
she’
|
animate’
|
i-k
|
u-k
|
k
|
|
‘this’
|
‘that’
|
‘inanimate’
|
|
|
| 3.1.1.4. referential
Pronouns: The referential pronoun is a nominal form used to substitute
the identical noun occurring in the sentence or in the subsequent
sentence. It has the same reference as the antecedent noun it substitutes.
The third person pronoun is always used in this way. The simple pronouns
b,m,
and k,
or the derived pronouns , b,m,
and ik,
are used in Kokborok as referential pronouns.
|
| 3.1.1.5. Interrogative
Pronouns: The interrogative pronoun is bV-which, combining with
other nouns other nouns and adverbs mentioned above, gives rise to
all the interrogative pronominal forms. |
|
bu-phuru
|
‘what
time, when’
|
|
bi-yaN
|
‘which
side, in which direction’
|
b-r
|
‘where’
|
|
|
