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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)
Demonstrative pronoun is used to indicate its referent's location spatially, temporally, or abstractly in relation to the discourse context. Languages are divided into two categories according to their distinction of demonstratives. Some languages, such as English, French and Chinese, make two-way distinction: proximal and distal. Others, such as Turkish, Spanish and Japanese, make three-way distinction: … Continue reading Demonstrative Pronouns
In Jembesa, possessivity is divided into two categories: possessive suffixes and possessive pronouns. Possessive Suffixes Possessive suffixes are added onto the words in noun class, and they turn into the forms in brakets under the process of affixation. Possessive Suffixes in Jembesa Ist Person Singular [-m(a/ä-)]:-m suffix is added onto the word in nominative form, … Continue reading Possessivity
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
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)
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