ASPECTS OF KUTURMI VERB PHRASE

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS

SVO                      Subject-Verb-Object

NP                        Noun phrase

N                          Noun

NI                         N-bar

VP                        Verb phrase

PP                         Prepositional phrase

ADJP                    Adjectival phrase

IP                          Inflectional phrase

SPEC                    Specifier

CP                        Complementizer

C                          Complement

I                            Inflection

ADJ                      Adjective

DET                      Determiner

VI                         V-bar

PREP                    Preposition

TNS                      Tense

PRES                    Present

P.S.R.                   Phrase Structure Rule

G & B                   Government and Binding Theory

TABLE OF CONTENT

Chapter one

1.0     General Background                                                                 

1.1     Geographical and Historical Background                                   

1.2     Historical Background                                                              

1.3     Socio-cultural Profile                                                                

1.3.1  Cultural Profile                                                                        

1.3.2  Religion                                                                                   

1.3.2.1 Tradition                                                                                

1.3.2.2 Christianity                                                                                      

1.3.2.3 Islam                                                                                               

1.3.3  Festival                                                                                    

1.3.4  Marriage Rite                                                                           

1.3.5  Socio-Economic Life                                                                

1.3.5.1 Occupation                                                                             

1.3.5.2 Food                                                                                      

1.3.5.3 Dress                                                                                               

1.3.6  Sociolinguistic Profile                                                              

1.4     Genetic Classification                                                               

1.5     Scope and Organization of the Study                                        

1.5.1  Justification of the Study                                                                   

1.5.2  Methodology                                                                            

1.5.3  Data Analysis                                                                           

1.6     Review of Theoretical Framework                                             

1.6.1  X-Bar Theory                                                                           

Chapter Two

2.0     Introduction                                                                                      

2.1     Basic Syntactic Concepts                                                          

2.1.1  Phrase Structure Rules                                                             

2.1.2  Noun Phrase                                                                                      

2.1.3  Verb Phrase                                                                             

2.1.4  Finite and Non-Finite Verb                                                       

2.1.5  Adjectival Phrases                                                                    

2.2     Basic Word Order                                                                     

2.3     Types of Sentences