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A DESCRIPTIVE ANALYSIS OF YERAVA
B. MALLIKARJUN
{oa}  oa: ‘inside’
   oa: qualifies the verb.
 
payuvu    ka:una    oa:vu    pa:nja
    1             2             3           4
 
‘The    cattle    went    into    the    forest’
             1         4        3                  2
 
{me:le}   me:le 'above'
me:le qualifies the verb.
 
eneyi    enna    me:le    bi:ndo
   1        2          3          4
 
‘What    fell    on    me’
    1       4      3      2
 
The particles that qualify the nouns
ca:la ‘lots of’
okka ‘all’
badelu ‘about’
po:le ‘like’
 
{Ca:la}    ~ca:la, ~tumba, ~bari ‘lots of''
~ ca:la, tumba, ~bari all these are in free variation. They qualify the nouns.
 
avangu tumba moema:ru ua:ru
avangu ca:la moema:ru ua:ru
avangu bari moema:ru ua:ru
1
2
3
4
 
‘He    has    many    boys’
 1       4        2         3
 
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