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Table 10.7 Paradigms of the verb देख /dekʰ/ 'see' in present tense

Number
Person Gender Honorificity Singular Plural

1/2/3 M/F H देखतानी /dekʰʌtɑni/

2 M MH देखताड़ऽ /dekʰʌtɑɽʌ/
2 F MH देखताड़ू /dekʰʌtɑɽu/

2 M/F NH देखताड़े /dekʰʌtɑɽe/

3 M MH देखताड़& /dekʰʌtɑɽẽ/ or देखताड़ेन /dekʰʌtɑɽen/ or

देखताड़न /dekʰʌtɑɽʌn/

3 F MH देखताड़ी /dekʰʌtɑɽi/

3 M NH देखता /dekʰʌtɑ/ or देखताटे /dekʰʌtɑʈe/

3 F NH देखितआ /dekʰʌtiɑ/

On the basis of instances (3a-i) and the tables of paradigms of verb खा /kʰɑ/

'eat' and देख /dekʰ/ 'see' we observe that -तानी /-tɑni/ is the general present tense

marker in all persons, genders and numbers for full honorificity, -ताड़ऽ /-tɑɽʌ/ marks
the verb stem for second person masculine in both numbers for mid-honorificity, -ताड़ू

/-tɑɽu/ for second person feminine in both numbers for mid-honorificity and -ताड़े /-

tɑɽe/ for second person in both genders and numbers for non-honorificity. Likewise, -

ताड़& /-tɑɽẽ/, ताट& /tɑʈẽ/, -ताड़ेन /-tɑɽen/ and -ताड़न /-tɑɽʌn/ mark verb stem for third

person masculine in both the numbers for mid-honorificity, -ताड़ी /tɑɽi/ for third

person feminine in both numbers for mid-honorificity and -ताटे /-tɑʈe/ and -ता /-tɑ/
mark for third person in both the numbers masculine and -ितआ /-tiɑ/ in feminine for

non-honorificity. Moreover, bilabial glidation happens between -आ /-ɑ/ final verb

stem and present tense markers, but not universally. In the data presented, it is

inserted with आ /ɑ/ 'come' in (3c) but not with खा /kʰɑ/ 'eat' in (3e).
10.2 Aspect

Aspects are different ways of viewing the internal temporal constitueny of a
situation (Comrie 1976). Katamba (1993:221) notes that aspect indicates whether an
event, state, process or action that is denoted by a verb is completed or in progress.

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