Demonstrative Determiners

In Jembesa, demonstrative determiners are same as demonstrative pronouns. Demonstrative pronouns function as a noun or noun phrase; on the other hand, demonstrative determiners function as an adjective. Despite thier functions, they are not classified as adjectives due to the fact that they don't end with adjectival suffix -o or -ö. They are classified as … Continue reading Demonstrative Determiners

Part of Speech (Adjective)

Adjective is a word whose main syntactic role is to modify a noun or noun phrase. It may either precede or follow a noun. Due to the fact that Jembesa is a head-final language, adjectives precede nouns in the language. In some of the languages (like Latin, French, German etc.), adjectives alter their form to … Continue reading Part of Speech (Adjective)

Grammatical Case I

ollesHi Grammatical case is 'any of the forms of a noun, adjective, or pronoun that express the semantic relation of the word to other words in the phrase, clause, or sentence.' Jembesa has 15 grammatical cases: nominative, genitive, accusative, vocative, instrumental-comitative, abessive, concerning, illative, inessive, elative, allative, adessive, ablative, essive, and agentive. In this chapter, … Continue reading Grammatical Case I

Part of Speech (Noun)

keresGood Evening Traditionally, we can classify words according to their functions in a sentence such as noun, verb, pronoun, adjective, adverb etc. We call this classification 'part of speech', or 'word class'. In Jembesa, we can mention two great word classes: noun and verb. The former includes noun, determiner, pronoun, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction, and … Continue reading Part of Speech (Noun)