4. SYNTAX
4.3.12. Coordination
Sentence coordination is marked mainly by the use of the
conjunction morphemes AaOr ør ‘and’ yaa ya: ‘or’, and magar magar/pr
par/ikMtu kintu ‘but’.
- maOM idllaI gayaa AaOr maora Baa[- Aagara ³gayaa ́.
m ́~ dilli: gaya: aur mera: bha:i: agra: (gaya:).
I Delhi went and my brother Agra went
I went to Delhi and my brother went to Agra. - saaohna maaohna ko Gar gayaa magar/ pr/ ikMtu maaohna
sohan mohan ke ghar gaya: magar/par/kintu mohan
Sohan Mohan gen home went but Mohan
Gar pr nahIM qaa.
ghar par nahĩ: tha:.
home at neg was
Sohan went to Mohans home, but Mohan was not there.
The conjunction morpheme AaOr ør ‘and’ can be followed by another
particle, BaI bhi: ‘also’.
- maaohna kla banaarsa jaaegaa AaOr saaohna BaI ³jaaegaa ́.
mohan kal bana:ras ja:yega: ør sohan bhi: (ja:yega:).
Mohan tomorrow Banaras go-fut and Sohan also go-fut
Mohan will go to Banaras tomorrow and Mohan will also go.
The conjunction compound morphemes yaa ya: -yaa -ya: ‘either – or’
are also used in sentence conjunctions.
- yaa Aaja vaYaa- haogaI yaa ihmapat haogaa.
ya: a:j varša: hogi: ya: himpa:t hoga:.
either today rain fall-fut or snowfall be-fut
Either it rains today or it will snow.
Notice that the word order of the constituent sentences undergo a
change when conjoined by the use of the conjunction morphemes yaa
- yaa ya: - ya:. Sentence (4) is obtained by conjoining (4a) and (4b).