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A DESCRIPTIVE ANALYSIS OF YERAVA B. MALLIKARJUN

-n- occurs with demonstrative pronouns ive, ave and nouns before they take the accustative case suffix -e, the genitive case suffix -a (Inflectional increment 2). ave-n-e > avene   'he' (Remo, Ace) ave-n-a > avena   'he' (Remo, Gen)           ive-n-e > ivene   'he' (Pro, Ace) ive-n-a > ivena   'he' (Pro, Gen) ura:i-n-e   ura:ine   'wife' (Acc) ura:i-n-a   ura:ina   'wife' (Gen) po:ke-n-a   po:kena   'toad' (Gen) po:ke-n-e   po:kene   'toad' (Acc) mara-t-n-a     > (R. 24) maratuna       'tree' (Gen) mara-t-n-e     > (R. 24) maratune       'tree' (Acc)   4.8   Cases Eleven cases are identified in Yerava. They are 1. Nominative case 2. Accusative case 3. Instrumental case 4. Dative case 5. Ablative case 6. Genitive case 7. Locative case 8. Causative case 9. Vocative case 10. Purposive case 11. Sociative case   However, there are 14 case markers shared among these 11 cases.

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