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A DESCRIPTIVE ANALYSIS OF YERAVA
B. MALLIKARJUN
 
APPENDIX-2.   SAMPLE TEXT

 
anjilamutti
 
‘Anjilamutti’
 
1. oruti mireti indau
  one (Fern)- old (Fern)- to be (Past)
  There was an old woman’
 
2. ava:a pe:ru anjilamutti
  she (Gen)- name- Anjilamutti
  'Her name was Anjilamutti’
 
3. anjilamutti tumba kaatili indau
  Anjilamutti- more (Intensifier) -difficulty
  (Loc)-to be (Past)  
  'Anjilamutti was in great difficulties’
 
4. ava:uku naapa a:vaka:i
  she (Dat)- to walk (infinitive)- to become (infinitive)
  e:ndepa a:vaka:i  
  negative—to get up (infinitive)-to   become
  (infinitive)—negative    
  'It was not possible for her to get up and walk’
 
5. anjilamuttine teyya malenja
  Anjilamutti (Acc) -god -saw
  'One god saw Anjilamutti’
 
 
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