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you |
to |
rice |
kilo |
two |
needed/wanted |
| 1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
two |
kilos |
of rice
|
(are) |
needed to |
you |
| 5 |
4 |
3
6 |
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2 |
1 |
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In the above examples kore, darjan and
kilo are modifiers and ča,
kusu and bras are head nouns. The modifiers kore, darjan and
kilo follow the head nouns ča,
kusu and bras. This may be shown as
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The order of occurrence is
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Demons. + adj.Qual
. 1...n + Nh + Nm + adj. Quan.
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Under Quantifiers,
further distinction may be made. It is possible to distinguish
the categories such as measure and collective under Quantifiers.
For example, the words such as darjan, kilo, etc. can be
taken care of by these cateegories. Adjectives of Quantity may
be further classified as
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| { collective } |
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} |
+ |
Quan. |
| { measure }
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The occurrence of all
these cateegories is optional. Only the head noun occurs
obligatorily in a noun phrase construction. The various types of
noun phrase constructions may be shown as |
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