Case System Of Kafinoonoo

This thesis is a study of the case system of Kafinoonoo. Its focus is on marking of corernand peripheral arguments. In addition, genitive case marking and case in differentrnconstructions like NPs, pronominals and passive are also discussed. In core argument,rnarguments in A/S position and arguments in O position have been seen. According to therndata by which this thesis is conducted; arguments in A/S position are not morphologicallyrnmarked. In other words nominative case in Kafinoonoo is morphologically unmarked.rnThis is the first study to show that proper names, morphologically marked nouns, simplernderived names behave differently with respect to O marking. Some of them arernoptionally marked, some of them are obligatorily marked, and still others can occupy thernO position by lengthening their final vowels and then optionally marked. In Kafinoonoornthere is no consistent way of accusative marking. Proper names including personal namesrnbehave in two ways in O position. They can occupy the position either by lengtheningrntheir final vowel or they can be suffixed by -n without lengthening. Personal pronounsrnespecially1SIG, 1PLU, 2SIG and 3distal pronouns behave similarly in O position. As inrnthe proper names they can lengthen their final vowels and then they can be suffixed by -rnn. Unlike these 3proximal pronouns, marked plural nouns and derived nouns arernobligatorily marked in O position by -n. Modified NPs in S/A position are notrnmorphologically marked, whereas they can behave differently in O position. Pronominalsrnare also not marked in A/S position but they too behave differently in O position. Theserncan either lengthen their final vowels or they can be optionally marked by -n.rnGenitive in Kafinoonoo is marked in different ways. Simple juxtaposition can show therngenitive case. In addition, ‘-tʃ’ can mark the genitive case in Kafinoonoo. There is still arnphonologically conditioned variant of ‘-tʃ’ which also can mark the genitive inrnKafinoonoo. This is ‘-dʒ’ which marks the genitive of noun that end in / m/ followed byrnvowel. These all are discussed in this thesis and finally the main findings arernsummarized.

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