| 3.1.7.
Post-Positins: |
| Post-positions are
formally different from case-suffixes in that they can be added to
the genitive from of the noun as well as to the nominative form. The
post-positions can occur independently without being added to any
noun. The post-position behaves like a noun in that the locative,
the ablative and the genitive suffixes are added to them. |
| Examples: |
|
|
| ‘Remove yourself
from the front of the tree’. |
|
|
k -nr-di
|
|
pron.pre.-tree-from
|
remove-imp.
|
|
|
| ‘Remove yourself
from the front of the tree’. |
|
hug-ni2
|
|
gayri
|
ta-di
|
|
field-of
|
middle-at
|
field-hut
|
build-imp.
|
|
|
| Build a field-hut
in the middle of the field’. |
|
|
gayri
|
ta-di
|
|
field-middle-at
|
field-hut
.
|
build-imp
|
|
|
| Build a field-hut
in the middle of the field’. |
| It may be noted that
there are post-positions which have the same meaning as some case
suffixes such as associative and ablative. |
| All
the post-position in Kokborok are listed below: |
| (1) |
thani ‘from’
|
:b
ba ar-ni-thani
kiphil-y
he market-gen.-from return-ing phay-
com-pres ‘He returns from the market’. |
|
|
| (2) |
bagµy ‘for’ |
:
b -ta-ni-bagµy
pron. pre.-elder-brother-gen.- for
|
tµy
|
tub-y
|
phay-di
|
|
water
|
take-ing
|
come-imp.
|
|
|
|
|
| ‘you bring water
for elder brother’. |
| (3) |
lg ‘with’ |
:
a-ni-lg
|
phay-di
|
|
I-gen.-with
|
come-imp.
|
|
|
|
|
| ‘Come with me’. |
| (4) |
ra
‘upto’ |
:
a-ni kami-ra-w-
I-gen. village-upto-at phay-di come-imp. ‘Come
upto my village’. |
|
|
| (5) |
saka‘on,above’. |
bu-pha
|
sakaw-
|
tk
|
|
|
pron.
pre.-tree
|
above-at
|
bird
|
stay-pres
|
|
|
|
|
| ‘There is a tree
in front of my house.’ |
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