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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