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4.1.2.
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Relative Clause |
The suffixes such as -khan,
-pi, and -mi are added with the verb in order to derive the
relative participle. The relative participle precedes head noun
in a noun phrase construction. The order of occurrence may be
shown as
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Demons. + Rel. Pl. + Nh
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| gondeya |
yo khan |
buchaw |
riliya |
so |
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| 1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
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(the) boy |
who |
came |
yesterday |
fall |
down |
|
3 |
|
2 |
1 |
5 |
4 |
ata |
soskhan |
amaw |
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| 1 |
2 |
3 |
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(the) |
mother |
who |
fed |
us |
|
| |
3 |
2 |
|
1 |
|
ata |
sokhan |
amaw |
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| 1 |
2 |
3 |
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| |
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|
{ feeds } |
|
|
(the) |
mother |
who |
{ will feed } |
us |
|
| |
3 |
|
2 |
1 |
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as |
khyospi |
gila:spu |
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| 1 |
2 |
3 |
|
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(the) |
glass |
which |
I |
brought |
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| |
3 |
2 |
1 |
2 |
|
as |
khyomi |
gila:spu |
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| 1 |
2 |
3 |
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{will bring } |
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(the) |
glass |
which |
I |
{bring
} |
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3
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2
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1
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2
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The relative participles can be classified as past and
nonpast. The suffixes such as -khan, -pi and -mi are added to
the verb stems after tense marker. In the case of non-past,
these suffixes are added to verb roots.
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4.1.2.
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Verb Phrase |
A sentence may be divided into two main parts. Subject
and predicate or noun phrase and verb phrase. Verb phrase may in
turn consists of one or more noun phrases which function as
direct object, indirect object, instrumental, dative etc.
However there is only one main verb and may be one or more
auxiliary verbs. In Purki, verb occurs in the final position
i.e., the verb is the final constituent in the structure of a
sentence. Purki may be described as verb final language like
Tamil and Telugu of Dravidian family of languages and Hindi and
Bengali of Indo-Aryan family of languages.
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The verb may be accompanied by an object with the
adverb of place and adverb of time. Unlike English, these
constituents precedes the verb in Purki.
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amo dra:meik tho
