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- Title
Gender, Number and Case in Uchai.
- Authors
Brahma, Tamojoy
- Abstract
Uchai is a small ethnic group of Tripura speaking a dialectical variant of Kokborok, the language of the Tippera. The paper discusses the major features of gender, number and case system in Uchai. While Section 1 serves as a brief introduction to the paper, Section 2 discusses the various ways of expressing gender differentiation in Uchai. Section 3 presents the morpheme indicating plurality in Uchai. Section 4 deals with different cases and their morphemes found in Uchai. Finally, Section 5, while concluding the paper, focuses on the salient features of gender, number and case system in Uchai, presenting a comparative study with Kokborok.
- Subjects
KOK Borok language; UCAI (Indic people); BODO languages; TIBETO-Burman languages; GENDER; MORPHEMICS
- Publication
Language in India, 2013, Vol 13, Issue 1, p623
- ISSN
1930-2940
- Publication type
Article