s -bulu |
me kuri-kirļdė |
those cats
|
|
that pl
|
cat pl
|
|
|
isi
|
kitabdļė
|
this book
|
|
this
|
book
|
|
|
bļkke
|
az nė
|
his friend
|
|
his
|
friend
|
|
-lu-kke
|
bļr
|
our sister
|
|
we PP
|
sister
|
|
|
|
nėdė
|
wife of the crocodile
|
|
crocodile of
|
lady the
|
|
|
ami
|
appi-k
|
four men
|
|
man
|
four
|
|
c
|
ap r-k
|
four fish
|
|
fish
|
four
|
|
|
ayįnė
|
migm
|
kind officer
|
|
kind
|
officer
|
|
bttanė
|
ami
|
great man
|
|
great
|
man
|
|
|
alumnė
|
dtem
|
round earth
|
|
round
|
earth
|
|
|
|
| (2)
Adjective head-modifier phrase - |
| Adjectives
with case markers and suffixes of degree of comparison can intensify
another adjective. |
| int
+
H |
| Adj
P |
| {-kke
}
Adj |
| Adj.
± {-ya } |
| {-yapag}
|
| {pė
} |
|
órinė
|
muga
|
deep brown
|
|
deep
|
brown
|
|
b tte-ya
|
ka-kanė
|
more beautiful
|
|
bib comp
|
beautiful
|
|
|
airupė
|
dp-nė
|
good taste
|
|
good at
|
taste
|
|
btte-ya-pagnė
|
zgėnė
|
deep green
|
|
|
| (3)
Verb Head-modifier Phrase : A word denoting an action alone can
occur as a verb phrase. Here, by word is meant root plus tense suffix,
causative or reflexive suffix. Such verb phrases can stand alone as
a sentence ie., verb in imperative mood. Apart from this, a verb phrase
may take an auxiliary, a negative particle, an adjective, an adverb
and a noun. This is the maximum potential of a verb phrase. Thus a
VP may have the following types of formation. |
|
(i)
|
VR
+
|
Tense
+
|
asp
|
|
|
|
|
{Present}
|
{durative }
|
|
|
|
|
{past }
|
{perfective}
|
|
|
|
|
{ future }
|
|
|
|
|
g+du
|
gdu
|
|
is going
|
|
|
gi+du+ai
|
gdual
|
|
was going
|
|
|
g+la+du+ye
|
gaduye
|
|
will be going
|
|
(ii)
|
±
P1
±
|
NP2
+
|
VR
+
|
suffix
|
|
|
|
bļm
|
kį-d
|
|
|
|
I
|
him
|
see t
|
|
|
|
| Here "bļm
kį-d"
is a verb phrase. Similarly a VP may have two NPs. |
|
bļm kitab
|
k
|
bi-d
|
gave him a book
|
|
him book
|
a
|
give t
|
|
|
|
