CONTENTS
CHAPTER SECTION
Personal definitives.:
Peculiar to Assamese: 595
Characteristic of all periods of Assamese: 596
Sources: 598-611
XIV. Declension of the Noun:
(A) Gender.
Disappearance of grammatical gender: 612
Feminine Suffixes: 613-614
(B) Number.
Relics of O.I.A. plurals: 615-619
(C) Plural Suffixes.
E. As. Plural suffixes: 620-621
Mod As. plural suffixes. -bor: 622
-bilāk: 623
-hãt: 624-625
E. As. -sa-: 626-627
E. As. -saba, -samba : 628 Mod. As. -lok, -diyck, -ccrck : 629-630 -khen : 631 -<Lr: 632 Dialectical Plural Suffixes : -hun : 634-635 -ten : 636 -tha- (-tha-) : 637 -hamra, -hamlet, : 638 bhella : 639 -gila, -g'Mk, -o/ildn, -rgld, -ijgUin : 640-642 (D) The Case. Devices to express case-relationship: . . The Two-fold characteristic of Assamese case-ending -e ; (Active-Passive and Past-Present) : The Nominative Case-ending, -e, -i, -d : The Instrumental, -e, -ert% -edi, -hatuwai ; The Locative, -ta t : The Ablative, -ta : 643 644-645 64&-648 649-652 653 654 A.-d
