Open AccessTIRUMURUKĀṞṞUPPAṬAIYIL URICCOṞKAḶ [FUNCTION OF ADJECTIVES IN TIRUMURUKĀṞṞUPPAṬAI]
Author(s) -
N. SUBASHREE
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
muallim journal of social sciences and humanities
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2590-3691
DOI - 10.33306/mjssh/179
Subject(s) - adjective , noun , linguistics , verb , tamil , natural language processing , artificial intelligence , grammar , relevance (law) , computer science , part of speech , psychology , philosophy , political science , law
This article is about the function of adjectives in thirumurukattupadai. Tholkapiyam is the first grammar and foremost reference book for the Tamil language. It is compiled as three books, each has nine subchapters, all together it has 27 chapters. Tolkappiyar classifies the words into four categories. They are 1. Noun 2. Verb 3. Particle and 4. Adjective. Of these, nouns and verbs can be distinguished as primary words and adverbs as dependent adverbs. This article examines how the thirumurugatrupadai was handled and the relevance and classification of the adjectives which help to develop the earlier Tamil dictionaries and nigandugal. This research is based on the library and the explanatory method was followed. The finding of this study was adjectives in Tholkapiyam have added two more classifications and identified.