A Grammatical Sketch of Asur: A North Munda language

Zoya Khalid


Abstract
Asur belongs to North Munda sub-branch of Austro-Asiatic languages which now has less than 10,000 speakers. This is a very first attempt at describing and documenting Asur language, therefore the approach of this paper is descriptive rather than that of answering research questions. The paper attempts to describe the grammatical features such as gender, number, case, pronouns, tense-aspect-mood, negation, question formation, etc. of Asur language. It briefly touches upon the morphosyntactic and typological features of Asur, with the intent to present a concise overview of the language, which has so far remained almost untouched by documentary linguistics.
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Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON)
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December
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2020
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Indian Institute of Technology Patna, Patna, India
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Pushpak Bhattacharyya, Dipti Misra Sharma, Rajeev Sangal
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NLP Association of India (NLPAI)
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40–49
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Zoya Khalid. 2020. A Grammatical Sketch of Asur: A North Munda language. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON), pages 40–49, Indian Institute of Technology Patna, Patna, India. NLP Association of India (NLPAI).
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