Assamese Language - Morphology and Grammar

Morphology and Grammar

The Assamese language has the following characteristic morphological features:

  • Gender and number are not grammatically marked
  • There is lexical distinction of gender in the third person pronoun.
  • Transitive verbs are distinguished from intransitive.
  • The agentive case is overtly marked as distinct from the accusative.
  • Kinship nouns are inflected for personal pronominal possession.
  • Adverbs can be derived from the verb roots.
  • A passive construction may be employed idiomatically.

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