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A DESCRIPTIVE ANALYSIS OF YERAVA B. MALLIKARJUN

-ru occurs with all the musculine derived nouns to derive epicene plural. kae-ru > kaeru 'thieves' (Mas & Fem) kure-ru > kureru 'blind' (Mas & Fem) kue-ru > kuneru 'lame' (Mas & Fem)   -eru occurs with the numeral stems for 'two', three and four. iru-eru > (R. 13) iruveru 'two persons' mu:-eru > (R. 13) mu:veru 'three persons' na:lu-eru > (R. 13) na:luveru 'four persons'   -va:ru occurs elsewhere. i-va:ru > iva:ru 'these persons' a-va:ru > ava:ru 'those persons' e-va:ru > eva:ru 'which persons'   4.7   Inflectional increment -t- occurs after the -a ending inanimate noun stems before they take accusative, dative, genitive and locative case markers (Inflectional increment 1). ka:gada-t-n-e > (R. 24) ka:gadatune   'letter' (Ace) mara-t-ku > (R. 24) maratuku   'tree' (Dat) pola-t-n-a > (R. 24) polatuna   'land' (Gen) tinga-t- > (R. 24) tingatu   'month' (Loc)

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