| 6.6.3 Concord of participles as complements |
| 6.6.3.1 Subjective complement |
| Participles involving intransitive verbs when used as subjective complements, have concord with the subject of the sentences. |
imma nä:RRu o: inavä |
‘This boy (is the one) who ran yesterday’ |
| this boy - yesterday - ran (P.N.) (P.T.) |
| a: dana nä:RRu me:ndadu |
‘That cow (is the one) which grazed yesterday’ |
| that - cow - yesterday - grazed (P.N.) (P.T.) |
| Participles involving transitive verbs when used as subjective complements have concord with the grammatical subject. |
| a: dana ä:ru mettadu |
‘By whom that cow was grazed’ |
| that - cattle - who - grazed |
| i: ka:du ä:ru u:dadu |
‘By whom this field was ploughed’ |
| this - forest - who - ploughed |
| 6.6.3.2 Objective complement |
| Both the imperfect and the perfect participles in Urali have verbal noun formed from the participle + verbal noun marker -ed followed by the accusative marker -e |
| na:nu dana me:gede pa:tte |
‘I saw the cow grazing’ |
| I - cow - graze (V.N.) (Acc.) saw (P.T.) |
avä ma:n pe ettirukkede pa:ttä |
‘He saw that the deer had survived’ |
| he - deer - survive (Aux.) (VN) - saw (P.T.) |
| 6.6.3.3 The main verb when followed by the auxiliary, the latter shows concord relationship with the subject. |
ava eudiyo: irukka |
‘She is writing’ |
| she - write - Aux - (P.T.) |
| 6.6.4 Verb concordance |
| Verbal forms in Urali which have personal markers show concord with the subject irrespective of the tense. Concord of PGN is observed in third person singular forms, whereas the first person singular, plural; second person singular, plural; third person singular, plural and neuter singular and plural show concordance at the level of PN only. |
