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na:nu ta:kihĩ
ha?
ĩ
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‘I am going walking’
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8.2.3.
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Simple adverbial stems by suffixing the ablative -ţi
to which the suffix -?e is added
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na:aņga
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ro?ulaţi?e
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nehi hille?
é
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‘since day before yesterday I am not well’
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vi?eţi?e
ma:mbu kamma ki:?omi
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‘from tomorrow we will not work’
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8.3
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Compound Adverbs: |
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Compound adverbs have two roots and function as adverbs of manner.
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compound adverbs are formed from
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8.3.1 |
nominal stem + verbal stem +
aadverbial suffix -hĩ |
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a:na?ataki soţţa
ki:hĩ
ta:ki manji
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‘why are you walking with a limp’
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evasi osso guņ uki:hĩ
mu:yimanesi
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‘He is powdering the medicine finely’
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8.3.2
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adjectival stem + verbal stem + adverbial suffix -b |
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i:kamma nehiki:hĩ
ki:mu
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‘Do this work well’
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8.3.3
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verbal stem + verb stem + adverbial suffix h |
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e:o:la
mah?a:ka:ya karki karkihĩ
tinji mannesi
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‘That boy is gnawing and eating the mango’
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evari hemburi?ĩ
atuku atukukihĩ
tinji mannesi
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‘They are patching and stitching the cloth’
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SYNTAX
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9.0
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Syntax is concerned with the study of the arrangement of words in
sentences and the relationships between them.
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9.1
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Order:
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Kuvi is a right expanding language morphologically, i.e. all derivative
or inflectional suffixes following the head word. Syntactically it is a
left-branching language. The finite verb is the main word in a simple
sentence. The adverb precedes the verb, the object precedes the adverb,
the subject noun precedes the object, the adjective precedes the noun.
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In complex sentences, the subordinate clause precedes the main clause.
This is the basic order, though the word order is relatively flexible.
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9.2
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The order of morphemes in a noun is as follows :
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Noun stem ±
gender suffix ±
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number suffix ±
case suffix
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ayya simple noun stem
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‘woman’
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ayyaska n. stem + num. suffix
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‘women’
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ayyaskaki n.stem + num. suffix + dat. suffix
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‘to the woman’
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