Personal, Possessive, Emphatic, and Interrogative pronouns are used. Personal and Possessive pronouns happens in free word and affixed forms. Emphatic pronoun occurs in suffixes.
Nouns can indicate living and non living objects. They occur in two forms, long form where carrying suffix -na, and short form where the suffix is removed and ends with a glottal stop. Long form are used less and mostly for citation, some as a subject, and mostly used in intransitive clauses.
Long Form
Short Form
Translation
ana
a'
women
yona
yo'
house
yana
ya'
taro
gokolena
gokole'
chicken
Examples of using Long forms
Yagaria
ba yana ege gilena
Breakdown
sweet potato taro banana corn
Translation
sweet potato taro banana corn
Yagaria
ana hoya no' - eli-e
Breakdown
woman work PROG-do- IND
Translation
the woman is working
Long forms as an object:
Yagaria
ve agaea ana eli- d- i- e
Breakdown
man he woman take-PAST-3.SG-IND
Translation
the man took the woman
Short forms as subject in intransitive clause and as an object:
Class 2 nouns have some ending in -na, and is never omitted. Suffixation happens after that syllable.
Examples:
Yagaria
bina
Translation
price
Yagaria
bina- 'a
Breakdown
price-ita
Translation
its price
Class 2 nouns that behave somewhat like class 1 nouns.They carry suffix -'na, has short form without ending in a glottal stop. All suffixation occurs with long form carrying the suffix -'na.
Primary and Secondary Adjectives are used in the Yagaria Language. Primary adjectives are used to determine the morphological behaviorist of "adjectives". Secondary adjectives are obtained from nouns or verbs, or local or temporal expressions occurring as noun adjuncts.
Morphological pattern of class 1 nouns, and class 2 nouns are the two groups being used in the primary adjectives. Most adjectives have short or not-suffixed form for attributive occurrence, and long or suffixed form for predicative occurrence.
^Renck, G.L. (1975). A grammar of Yagaria (Pacific Linguistics. Series B; no. 40). Canberra: Dept. of Linguisctics, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National Universit.
^Renck, G.L. (1975). A grammar of Yagaria (Pacific Linguistics. Series B; no. 40). Canberra: Dept. of Linguisctics, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National Universit. pp. (7-10).
^Renck, G.L. (1975). A grammar of Yagaria (Pacific Linguistics. Series B; no. 40). Canberra: Dept. of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University. pp. (15-18).
^Renck, G.L. (1975). A grammar of Yagaria (Pacific Linguistics. Series B; no. 40). Canberra: Dept. of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University. pp. (26-29).
^Renck, G.L. (1975). A grammar of Yagaria (Pacific Linguistics. Series B; no. 40). Canberra: Dept. of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University. pp. (54-59).
^Renck, G.L. (1975). A grammar of Yagaria (Pacific Linguistics. Series B; no. 40). Canberra: Dept. of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University. pp. (72-74).
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