Folklore and Language: Ergativity and Agreement of Khortha Language in Jharkhand
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Khortha speaking learner confronts difficulty in learning English pronunciation including sounds85v m,.f43 is due to ergativity in khortha. To discuss Ergativity in khortha, we should know what is ergativity. According to Oxford Dictionary Ergativity in linguistics means " A structuring property of the grammar of certain language" Khortha is one of the varieties of Angika. Angika itself is called the dialect of Maithili, which, in turn, was a dialect of Maithili, which, in turn, was a dialect of Hindi until 2003 when Maithili, via the 92nd Constitutional amendment, became one of the language of the Eighth Schedule to the constitution of India. Khortha is spoken in more than fifty villages in at least five to six districts of Jharkhand. Khortha in Jharkhand has a pattern of SOV language and it possesses most of the typological characteristics such as post-position, negation preceding the main verb, auxiliaries following the main verb, a marker of comparison the standard of comparison following the standard of comparison, etc. of a verb-final language. To maintain clarity in the presentation.
In this paper, we will discuss the structure of khortha and prove that it has ergativity which is marked phonologically if the subject NP ends in a vowel and by a suffix "e" when the subject NP ends in a constant sound.
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