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A DESCRIPTIVE ANALYSIS OF YERAVA
B. MALLIKARJUN
  ni:yu    eppa:u    bi:nda:u    ikkaa
  1            2                3                 4
   
  ‘Always    you    do    not    keep    sleeping’
   2           1                 4                 3
   
  maye    banda:ua:ku    pola    u:yikoikkaa
   1                2                   3            4            5
   
  ‘While    raining    do    not    keep    ploughing    the    land’
   2              1                      5           4                     3
 
2.     Non-finite verb phrases
The non-finite verb phrases too can be classified into simple non-finite verb phrases and complex non-finite verb phrases. The simple non-finites are formed with the structure: + Verb (+adverbial/infmitive/participle/conditional): and the complex non-finite forms are formed with the structure: +Verb+auxiliary+
Simple non-finite verb phrases
(i) Adverbial
  ni:nga    u:eku    banda:ku    na:nga    ippaka:i
   1            2             3              4            5
   
  'While    you    came    here    we    were    not    here’
             1        3         2       4                    5
   
  na:ga    pireku    po:ya:ku    appe    pireli    ippaka:i
   1         2            3            4         5          6
   
  'While    we    went    home    father    was    not    at    home’
   1       3        2          4          6                         5
 
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