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A Descriptive Analysis of Tense and Aspect in Sadri

Albin Rico Xalxo, Ph.D. Research Scholar

Abstract

This paper aims at analyzing verbal suffixes in Sadri with special focus on tense and aspect inflections. The Sadri past tense and the future tense are marked by morphemes /-l-/ and /-b-/ respectively. But, there are some exceptions found in imperfective and perfective aspects in the past tense which are marked with or without the past tense marker /-l-/. The future tense marker /-b-/ is absent in the third person singular in all aspects. Likewise, the perfective aspect morpheme in Sadri is /-y ~ -i-/. The perfective aspect morpheme /–y/ gets attached to the vowel ending verbs and /–i-/ get inserted in the consonant ending verbs. The Sadri imperfective is marked by morpheme /-at ~ -t /. The morpheme / -t / is attached to the vowel ending and /-at / to the consonant ending verbs.

Keywords: Sadri, Indo-Aryan, Chota Nagpur, agglutinative, tense, aspect

1.0. Introduction
1.1 Tribal Groups in Chota Nagpur

The Chota Nagpur region is filled with many indigenous tribal groups viz. Mundari, Ho, Santhal, Kharia, Oraon, Kisan. They speak different aboriginal languages within their own community. They use Sadri as the lingua franca among the other tribal groups. This language has become the link between these groups. Sadri is used in all most all the village functions like, village meetings, worship at church and for other occasions. It is because the villages comprise of all these above mentioned tribal groups in this region. Sadri has become more dominant over a period of time within these communities. As a result, Sadri language is taking over the aboriginal languages. Many Munda, Oraon and other tribal children and the parents have acquired Sadri as the first language in todays’ generation.

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Albin Rico Xalxo, Research Scholar Ph.D. Linguistics
Centre for Applied Linguistics and Translation Studies
University of Hyderabad
Hyderabad 500046
Telangana
India
albinricoxalxo@gmail.com

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