Documentation And Description Of Chara Verb Morphology

This paper presents the study on the documentation and description of Chararnverb morphology. The section under verb morphology of the Chara languagernconsists, the background information of the Chara people, their language,rnobjectives of the study, methodology of the study, review of the previous worksrnand sketch grammar on the verb morphology of the Chara language andrnsample words and sentences of the language. The basic issues discussed underrnthe verb morphology of Chara language comprise: verb inflections andrnderivations of the language . Under verb inflection, some of the verb inflectionsrnlike: tense, number, gender, negation, mood and person were treated by givingrnexample data under each grammatical categories. After discussing the aboverngrammatical categories under the verb inflection of the language, it wasrnconcluded that, the verbs of the Chara language are inflected for tense,rnnumber , gender, negation , mood and person. Under the verb derivations of thernlanguage, different word classes were discussed; these are: verbal nouns, verbsrnand adjectives. In doing so the analysis was supported by citing samplern(example data) of the language under study. The discussion under verbrnderivation of the language revealed that the verbs of the Chara language arernderived from verbal nouns, adjectives and from the infinitive form of the verbrnthrough stem-modification and suffIxation processes.

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