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A DESCRIPTIVE ANALYSIS OF URALI
Sam Mohan Lal
4.24.3.2 Enclitic2
4.24.3.2.1 Clitic of supposition
         {-a:m}
         ~ -:m
   pa:in-a:m (5.19) > pa:ina:mu ‘even if (one) sings’
   nambin-a:m (5.19) > nambina:mu ‘even if (one) believes’
4.24.3.3 Enclitic3
4.24.3.3.1 Conjunctive2
         {-um - - - um}
         ~ -um - - - um
   kuruan-um na:n-um > kuruamum na:num ‘blind (man) and ‘I’
   ra:man-um na:n-um > ra:manum nanum ‘Raman and I’
   pa:-in-ų-um
   a:-in-ų-um (5.20,17) > pa:diyuma:iyum ‘having sung and danced’
4.24.3.4 Enclitic4
Enclitic4 occurs after the post clitics and the suffixes can be grouped as universal clitic and indefinitive clitic.
4.24.3.4.1 Universal clitic
         {-um}
         ~ -anam, ~ -um
  ~ -anam occurs after the interrogative pronouns ä:r- (3.1.2.2.4) and ed- (3.1.2.2.2)
   ä:r-anam (5.19) > ä:ranamu ‘anybody’
   ed-anam (5.19) > edanamu ‘anything’
      ~ -um occurs elsewhere
      epp-um (5.19) > eppumu ‘always’
      eppumu ava naakka ‘always she walks’
4.24.3.4.2 Indefinitive clitic
         {-o:}
         ~ -o:
      epp-o: > eppo: ‘sometimes’
      eppo: avä naakkä ‘sometimes he walks’

                                       

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