CHAPTER VII

CLITICS AND PARTICLES

7.1    Clitics

The clitics are described as bound forms and they are not Hcd either for the case markers or for all tense crs. But they are capable of taking another clitic.

The Yerava clitics are classified into three classes.

1. Pro-clitics 2. Post-clitics 3. En-clitics

Pro-clitics

The pro-clitics are further subclassified into two classes.

(i) Demonstrative clitics (ii) Interrogative clitics

(i)    Demonstrative clitics

The demonstrative clitics are also further classified into

Proximate demonstrative clitic Remote demonstrative clitic

Proximate demonstrative pro-clitic

{i-}    u:-,   i-

u:- occurs before the place clitic -e.

u:e                             'here'