LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 11 : 12 December 2011
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
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Case Markers in Hawar Dialect of Dimasa

Bapan Barman, Ph.D. Scholar

Abstract

Case is a grammatical category, which is used to show the relationship among different words used in a sentence. The present paper investigates the case markers in Hawar dialect of Dimasa, spoken in Cachar and Hailakandi districts of Barak Valley, which is situated in the southern part of Assam. In Hawar dialect of Dimasa, the case is realized in the form of postpositions, when these postpositions take nouns structurally form phrases. Therefore, they are called postpositional phrases. Postpositional phrases are made up of a noun phrase followed by a postposition.

1. INTRODUCTION

The North-East region of India is bounded by the political boundary of China in the North, Bhutan in the West, Bangladesh in the East and Burma (Myanmar) in the South. It comprises of eight states and the states are Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim and Tripura. Of these, Assam is the biggest state (as per land area) in this region consisting of Brahmaputra Valley and Barak Valley. In Assam, languages belonging to different language families are found, namely, Indo-Aryan, Austro-Asiatic (of Munda group) and Tibeto-Burman.

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Bapan Barman, Ph.D. Research Scholar
Department of Linguistics
Assam University
Silchar 788011
Assam, India
bapan.barman@yahoo.co.in
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