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A DESCRIPTIVE ANALYSIS OF YERAVA B. MALLIKARJUN

ave    puekku    kai    tinipikinju   1          2          3           4   'He    feeds   food    to    the    child’  1        4          3                     2   ava:u    pueku    pa:lu    kuipikinjou    1           2           3                 4   ‘She    feeds    milk    to    the    child’   1         4        3                       2   na:nu    be:renekou    boine    arepice    1             2                  3            4   ‘I    got    Bolli    beaten    by    Byra’   1            3        4          2   5.4  Imperative Imperatives express the commands and requests. Yerava has four levels of imperative expressions. 1. Imperative1 : Inferior, equal, singular. 2. Imperative2 : Superior and plural. 3. Imperative3 : Inferior, equal, masculine. 4. Imperative4 : Inferior, equal, feminine.   5.4.1.   Imperative (-ø)      ø -ø in imperative1, the verb stem itself acts as the imperative1. ni:yu kui ‘you drink’ (Sg) ni:yu kaa ‘you cross’ (Sg)

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