Download Mising 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   eg. :- kke mėlke kanam kdė gļdu I of yesterday seen boy the go+ ‘tense/mood/asp’ Literally- my yesterday seen boy goes ‘The boy (whom) I saw yesterday goes’ kke mė namė bulu gļye ‘I think they will go’ I of thought they go+future Literally- my thought (thinking) they will go  they will go In passive constructions, the agent takes the instrumental marker /-k*kki/. isi agėrsėm ram-kkki gėrduai ‘This work was done by this work to Ram by work+past Ram’ 1.4.2. Accusative It is the case of object which undergoes the action. So this case relationship presupposes a transitive verb. It is marked by /-ėm/. This case relationship is expressed by all subclauses of nouns. 1 bļ kediėm dpdu ‘He eats mango’ he mango+acc. tense+asp 2 kke mnamdėm ukuwe? ‘What am I doing? my doing+acc what 3 nkke myė dėm gkt ‘Call your daughter’ your daughter+acc. call+imp 1.4.3. Dative This is the case of indirect object or purpose or goal of movement. 1. Dative of indirect object The case marker is /-legabe/ for human nouns and /-kabe/ for inanimate nouns. 2. Dative of purpose The human and inanimate nouns take the same marker as dative of indirect object. Complements take the case marker /-be/ and /-anka/. nm gi yalanka ludunoi ‘I told you to come’ I you+acc come for say+tense bļ sgapkabe gid ‘He went to catch fish’ he fish catch for go+tense ism legabe appi pagla ‘I looked for it every where’ I this for around see+tense 3. Dative as goal movement The goal could be a simple goal marked by /-pė/ or direction marked by /-d¨@pė/ when it is far away and /-s¨@pė/ when it is close. iskul       pė     gļ    t ‘Go to school’ school     to     go +imp nen        dė     kum   pė   gļ   ye ‘The women will go to the house’ women   the    house   to   go   will bļ   me l    agrpė   gi   dunai ‘He went to the sea yesterday’ he  yesterday sea at go  past kkan   kiri   de  bari-drpė  gļ  d ‘The children go towards (upto) the garden’ child  plural the  garden towards go+tense etc. kum spė gļ-t ‘Go towards (upto) the house towards go+tense, etc house’     Previous   |   Next Top

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