Download Yerava Book --Select Grammar Book-- ABJUHMARIA Grammar ANGAMI Grammar AO Grammar APATANI Grammar BHUMIJ Grammar BROKSKAT GOJRI Grammar HMAR Grammar KARBI Grammar KOKBOROK Grammar KUVI Grammar LOTHA Grammar MAO NAGA Grammar MISH Grammar MISING Grammar MUNDARI Grammar NAGA PIDGIN Grammar PURKI Grammar SEMA Grammar Theory of Binding Grammar URALI Grammar A DESCRIPTIVE ANALYSIS OF YERAVA   A DESCRIPTIVE ANALYSIS OF YERAVA B. MALLIKARJUN 5.14    Appellative verbs The verbs belonging to this class are not inflected for tense markers. They, however, take suffixes to derive participle nouns, relative participles, verbal participles, conditionals and may also take person—gender—number. The appellative verbs thus identified in Yerava are: u-   ‘exists’ al-   ‘no’ ie-   ‘young’ ceri-   ‘small’ nal-   ‘good’ bali-   ‘big’ pudi-   ‘new’ kure-   ‘little’ mu:t-   ‘elder’       {u-}   ‘exists’   This verb stem is used to indicate existance. It takes the person—gender—number markers only. The person—gender—number markers added to this verb are those of past tense only in the third person. u-e   ‘I am’ u-o   ‘we are’ u-e   ‘you are’ (Sg) u-iri   ‘you are’ (PI) u-a   ‘he is’ u-au   ‘she is’ u-aru   ‘they are’   ave    pireli    ua   1       2        3   ‘He    is    at    home’ 1      3            2 Previous | Next Top

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