LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 11 : 5 May 2011
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
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The Syntax of Deixis in Khasi

George Bedell, Ph. D.

Khasi is a Mon-Khmer language spoken primarily in eastern Meghalaya State, India and adjoining areas in Assam and Bangladesh. The speaking population in India is 865,000, according to Ethno-logue (Lewis 2009). The examples in this discussion are taken from Ka Khubor jong ka Jingieit (The Message of Love: the New Testament in Khasi, 2000) and cited in the orthography used there, unless otherwise noted. The numbers following examples indicate chapter and verse in Ka Gospel U Mathaios (The Gospel according to Matthew). Although the edition cited is recent, the transla-tion was done from the Authorized (King James) English version, sometime in the nineteenth cen-tury. Thus the Khasi investigated here differs from Khasi as either spoken or written at the present time. It is difficult for some modern Khasis to fully understand, but it remains in common use. An earlier version of this paper was presented to the nineteenth meeting of the Southeast Asian Lin-guistics Society (SEALS), hosted by the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, May 2009.

Gender/Number Particles

Khasi nouns are categorized according to gender (masculine or feminine) and number (singular or plural). These categories are marked by particles which precede a noun, called in traditional Khasi grammar 'articles'.

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George Bedell, Ph. D.
Lecturer, Department of Linguistics
Payap University
Chiang Mai 50000
Thailand
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