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Negation in the Southern Dialect of Bodo

Mihir Kumar Brahma, M.A., B.Ed., M.Phil., Ph.D. Scholar

Abstract

This paper presents an analysis of negation used in the Southern dialect of Bodo. Negation is a process or construction in grammatical and semantic analysis which typically expresses the contradiction of some or all of a sentence’s meaning. Some languages use more than one particle in a single clause to express negation (David Crystal, 1980). In the Southern dialect of Bodo, there are two ways of expressing negation, one is by using negative markers and the other is with the help of negative copula. The negative marker /da-/ is prefix negative marker and /-n??a/, /-a/, /-ja/, /-daja/, /-laja/ and /-haj/ are the suffix negative markers in the Southern dialect of Bodo which occurs in the post-verbal position. The negative markers /-ja/ and /-n??a/ are used in equation constructions and nominal predicates. The negative copula /-gija/ is added immediately in the final position of a sentence to make the negative.

Introduction

Assam is a North-Eastern State of India, the garden of human languages. The area of Assam covers 78,438 sq.km. and according to 2001 Census of India the total population of Assam is 26,655,528. The Assamese, Bengali, Bodo and Karbi are the official languages of the state of Assam. According to 2001 Census of India, the total population of Bodo in Assam is 1,352,771.

Bodo is the most colourful tribe of North-East India preserving their language, culture and custom. Genetically, they are Mongoloids and their language belongs to Tibeto- Burman family of languages. Bodo is the term which denotes the name of people and the language. Though, the Bodo word is known by other tribes in various names like Mech or Mlessah or Kirata or Kachari in different times of different places. However, the Bodo tribe is the same people. The following are the some authorities who placed the Bodo with their facts and figure in their works.

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LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 14:5 May 2014
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
         B. A. Sharada, Ph.D.
         A. R. Fatihi, Ph.D.
         Lakhan Gusain, Ph.D.
         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
         S. M. Ravichandran, Ph.D.
         G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.
         C. Subburaman, Ph.D. (Economics)
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