• Takhellambam Bijaya Devi

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This paper attempts to describe the case markers used in Kaprang-Tangkhul
a Tibeto-Burman language which is typographically closely connected with its
neighbouring district of Thoubal. Kaprang-Tangkhul is the name of the village as well
as the name of the Tangkhul Tribe. Kaprang-Tangkhul also has the word order of
subject-object-verb and it shares some of the characteristic features of verb final
languages. Case is a grammatical category which is established on two counts viz. i)
syntactic correlation between the substantives amd ii) between two substantive in a
syntactic unit (Yashwanta, 2000). On the basis of data seven case markers are found
in this language, viz. nominative, accusative, ablative locative, instrumental,
associative and genitive. All the case markers are suffixes to the noun and pronoun.

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