Download Lotha Book --Select Grammar Book-- ABJUHMARIA Grammar ANGAMI Grammar AO Grammar APATANI Grammar BHUMIJ Grammar BROKSKAT GOJRI Grammar HMAR Grammar KARBI Grammar KOKBOROK Grammar KUVI Grammar LOTHA Grammar MAO NAGA Grammar MISH Grammar MISING Grammar MUNDARI Grammar NAGA PIDGIN Grammar PURKI Grammar SEMA Grammar Theory of Binding Grammar URALI Grammar A DESCRIPTIVE ANALYSIS OF YERAVA   If kinship nouns have a modifier, plural marker is added to the modifier or to the whole noun phrase. Examples tá mhm c-á good elder brothers or those good brother good that pl. elder brothers(elder) If a noun is modified by a quantifier, the quantifier comes in the end. Examples kyn-tn       group of men men quantifier If other attributes are used along with the quantifier, the quantifier always occurs in the end. kyn mhm tn         group of good men man good quantifier Hence, plural marker and quantifier are in non-contrastive distribution. They do not occur with the noun if the other member is present. If the numerical attributes and qualifying attributes of a noun are added together then the numerical attribute always comes in the end. Examples frò mhm mótsà     one good dog dog good one kì mhm nì                  two good houses house good two If the noun is qualified by the same type of adjectives then the order of the adjective is not rigid. If the number marker is added, it is added to the whole noun phrase. Example L°ksà basket lksà my basket my basket lksà mhm my good basket my basket good lksà tsphv mhm my good big basket my basket big good lksà myóm tsphv mhm my red big good basket my basket red big good lksà myóm tsphv mhm cá Those my red big good baskets my basket red big good that pl. In the above sentence, similar adjectives like myóm, tsphv and mh°m do not have rigidity in order. They can be interchanged. In case of other modifiers the order is rigid. In Lotha, following types of modifiers can be noticed. 1. Qualitative 2. Numerical 3. Quantitative Order among the qualitative modifiers is not rigid. If a qualitative modifier is used along with numerical modifier, the order is rigid. In that case, numerical modifier always comes in the end. Examples frò mhm ®thm     three good dogs dog good three If a qualitative modifier and quantitative modifier are used, the order is rigid and the quantitative modifier always comes in the end.     Previous   |   Next Top

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