Open AccessNUMBER IN KHELMA
Author(s) -
K Amrita Singha
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
veda's journal of english language and literature
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2349-9753
DOI - 10.54513/joell.2022.9104
Subject(s) - plural , linguistics , noun , subject (documents) , verb , agreement , mathematics , grammaticalization , computer science , philosophy , library science
This paper is an attempt to study the linguistic structure on number in Khelma language. Number is grammaticalized in Khelma as there is subject-verb agreement present in the language as far as number distinction is concerned. Khelma shows two number distinctions viz. singular and plural like other KukiChin languages. The singular is unmarked, while the plural is morphologically marked for both animate and inanimate nouns in the language. The other morphological processes of number in the language will be discussed in the present paper.