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- Title
Causative Constructions in Pnar.
- Authors
War, Gamidalah
- Abstract
Pnar is a dialect of Khasi belonging to the Mon-Khmer group of the Austro-Asiatic language family, spoken in the West and East Jaintia Hills district of Meghalaya and a few pockets of the neighbouring state of Assam and neighbouring country of Bangladesh. The study of causatives in Pnar demonstrates that Pnar has only one type of causative i.e., morphological causative which is derived by attaching the prefix p?n- or t?n- to the main verb. Morphological causatives according to Payne, 1997, p.176 "are one kind of 'valence increasing' operations formed on the basis of intransitive or transitive events." This paper looks into the valency properties of the causatives in Pnar, thereby focussing on the argument structure of the causative constructions found in Pnar.
- Subjects
BANGLADESH; CAUSATIVE (Linguistics); MON-Khmer languages; AUSTROASIATIC languages; KHASI (Indic people)
- Publication
Language in India, 2022, Vol 22, Issue 11, p72
- ISSN
1930-2940
- Publication type
Article