LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 11 : 10 October 2011
ISSN 1930-2940

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Case Marker in Khasi

Bashisha Shabong, Ph.D. Scholar

Abstract

The present paper investigates the case markers in Khasi. In Khasi, case is realised in the form of prepositions. These prepositions take nouns structurally to form phrases; therefore they are called prepositional phrases. Prepositional phrases are built up of a preposition followed by a noun phrase. Though prepositions are syntactically bound elements, when they occur with nouns and pronouns, they constitute phrase instead of words. However, when they occur with demonstratives, they constitute word. A few prepositional phrases take bound elements to constitute larger words which function as prepositions when they occur before nouns. They function as adverbials when they occur elsewhere. So, they are called prepositional adverbials.

1. Introduction

The North-eastern region of India comprises the states of Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Manipur, Nagaland, Sikkim and Tripura. Meghalaya is located between 25o1N- 26o5Nlatitude and 85o49 E to 92o52E longitude. To the North of Meghalaya is the state of Assam and to its south is the country Bangladesh. The state is located closer to the Tropic of Cancer. It is a small hilly state located in the North-eastern region of India .The northern boundary of the state is shared with Goalpara and Kamrup districts of Assam; Goalpara and Ranjpur districts in west and Mymensingh and Sylhet districts of Bangladesh in south. In east shares its boundary with Cachar and Karbi-Anglong (Assam). Meghalaya is closer to some other countries also besides Bangladesh. They are Bhutan, China and Nepal. Meghalaya occupies 22,429km2 of area. It stretches 300 km long from east to west and 100km north to south. There are 12 town and 526 villages in Meghalaya. The population of Meghalaya is 2.3 million. Khasi is currently spoken in the district of Khasi and Jaintia Hills in the state of Meghalaya, in the district of North Cachar Hills in the state of Assam and in the district of Sylhet in Bangladesh.

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Ms. Bashisha Shabong, Ph. D. Scholar
Department of Linguistics
Assam University
Silchar-788011
Assam
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