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   (2) For animals, the classifier is /ad¨r/. To denote plurality, the form /-ak/ always comes after the classifier idi adrk ‘one dog’ idi dįrńik ‘two dogs’ idi dįrumk ‘three dogs’ (3)Terrestrial entities like soil, field, etc., take the classifier /alu/ am aluk ‘one field’ am luik ‘two fields’ (4) Utensils take the classifier /e_zu/ ap ėzuk ‘a cup of wine’ (5) Nouns denoting flat objects take the classifier /abr/ kitab abėrk ‘one book’ kitab bįrńik ‘two books’ kitab bįrumk ‘three books’ (6) Nouns denoting rectangular objects take the classifier /atąk/ tktą atąk ‘one cot’ tktą tagńik ‘two cots’ tktą tagumk ‘three cots’ (7) Nouns denoting long objects take the classifier /as/ epłk ask ‘one arrow’ epłk spļk ‘four arrows’ epłk sck ‘five arrows’ (8) Nouns denoting tall objects take the classifier /amiN/ kedi amļk ‘one mango tree’ ke_vdi miik ‘two mango trees’ (9) Nouns denoting other objects like fish, insects, body parts, months, creepers etc. take the classifier /apir/ apirk ‘one fish’ pirńik ‘two fishes’ pl apirk ‘one month’ amik pirńik ‘two eyes’ There are two morphonemic rules which operate in the addition of classifiers to nouns. The first morphophonemic rule deletes the initial vowel of the classifier when a numeral follows. The second morphophonemic rule changes /¨/ in the classifier to /a/. The status of the ‘morpheme’ /k¨/ at the end of the construction is uncertain. However, another morphophonemic rule can be posted which deletes /k¨/ after another /k/. dlu ami ‘village man’ adi tani ‘hill man’ The possibility of the existance of more classifiers cannot be ruled out, but more data will be necessary to come to any conclusion. 2. Adjective 2.0    Adjectives occupy modifying slots in the noun phrase and can either precede or follow the noun. Adjective do not take person, number and gender suffixes. Functionally, adjectives are of two types - a) adjectives and b) adjectival. In terms of privileges of occurrence at the levels beyond a word, adjectival are functionally adjectives, but categorically refer to other grammatical classes. These include demonstrative and indefinite adjectives and behave like other adjectives in higher constructions. When an adjective takes a post-position, it functions as either a noun or an adverb.     Previous   |   Next Top

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