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  2. Telugu grammar - Wikipedia

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    Telugu is more inflected than other literary Dravidian languages. Telugu nouns are inflected for number (singular, plural), gender (masculine and non-masculine) and grammatical case (nominative, accusative, instrumental, dative, ablative, genitive, locative and vocative). [2] There is a rich system of derivational morphology in Telugu.

  3. Syntactic category - Wikipedia

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    At least three criteria are used in defining syntactic categories: The type of meaning it expresses; The type of affixes it takes; The structure in which it occurs; For instance, many nouns in English denote concrete entities, they are pluralized with the suffix -s, and they occur as subjects and objects in clauses.

  4. Noun class - Wikipedia

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    For instance, in Swahili the word rafiki 'friend' belongs to the class 9 and its "plural form" is marafiki of the class 6, even if most nouns of the 9 class have the plural of the class 10. For this reason, noun classes are often referred to by combining their singular and plural forms, e.g., rafiki would be classified as "9/6", indicating that ...

  5. Grammatical category - Wikipedia

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    But in generative grammar, which sees meaning as separate from grammar, they are categories that define the distribution of syntactic elements. [1] For structuralists such as Roman Jakobson grammatical categories were lexemes that were based on binary oppositions of "a single feature of meaning that is equally present in all contexts of use".

  6. List of grammatical cases - Wikipedia

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    Anglo-Norman [citation needed] | Hindi | Old French | Old Provençal | Telugu | Tibetan: Intransitive case (also called passive or patient case) the subject of an intransitive verb or the logical complement of a transitive verb: The door opened languages of the Caucasus | Ainu: Pegative case: agent in a clause with a dative argument: he gave ...

  7. Appa-kavi - Wikipedia

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    Vishnu told Appa-kavi that next morning, a Brahmin from Matanga Hill would visit him and give him a copy of Nannaya's work. Vishnu asked Appa-kavi to elaborate Nannaya's work in Telugu language. Appa-kavi's maternal relatives, who included noted authors, convinced him to write the book. He then composed Appakavīyamu, and dedicated the book to ...

  8. Telugu language - Wikipedia

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    Nannaya was the first to establish a formal grammar of written Telugu. This grammar followed the patterns which existed in grammatical treatises like Aṣṭādhyāyī and Vālmīkivyākaranam but unlike Pāṇini, Nannayya divided his work into five chapters, covering samjnā, sandhi, ajanta, halanta and kriya.[14]

  9. Trilinga Kshetras - Wikipedia

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    In Andhra Kaumudi, a Telugu grammar book, it was mentioned that Andhra Vishnu, having built an immense wall connecting the three mountains with the Mahendra hills, formed in it three gates, in which the three-eyed Ishwara, bearing the trident in his hand and attended by a host of divinities, resided in the form of three lingams.