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mohʌn sɑ ̃ ȷ ̈ -e sut-ʌl-ʌu
Mohan evening-EMPH sleep-INF-3PRES.2NH
'Mohan sleeps early in the evening.' (For non-honorific addressee)

i. मङJ िबहान आई ।

mʌŋʌru biɦɑn ɑi
mʌŋʌru biɦɑn ɑ-i

Mangaru tomoroww come-3SG.FUT
'Mangaru comes tomorrow.' (Addressee neutral)

j. मङJ िबहान अतइन ।

mʌŋʌru biɦɑn ʌtʌin
mʌŋʌru biɦɑn ɑ-wʌt-ʌin
Mangaru tomoroww come-INF-3.FUT.2H

'Mangaru comes tomorrow.' (For full honorific addressee)

k. मङJ िबहान अतौ ।
mʌŋʌru biɦɑn ʌtɔ

mʌŋʌru biɦɑn ɑ-wʌt-ɔ
Mangaru tomoroww come-INF-3FUT.2MH
'Mangaru comes tomorrow.' (For mid-honorific addressee)

l. मङJ िबहान अतऊ ।

mʌŋʌru biɦɑn ʌtʌu
mʌŋʌru biɦɑn ɑ-wʌt-ʌu

Mangaru tomoroww come-INF-3.FUT.2NH
'Mangaru come tomorrow.' (For non-honorific addressee)
In the examples shown in (23a-l), the first four sentences (23a-d) express

present tense, the next four sentences (23e-h) exhibit past tense and the last four
sentences (24i-l) show future tense. Among them sentences in (24a, e, i) are neutral

with respect to addressee. Then the other sentences, irrespective of tense, have the
infinite verbs are suffixed with -अइन /-ʌin/ for full honorific, -औ /-ɔ/ for mid-

honorific and -अऊ /-ʌu/ for non-honorific addressee, no matter, whether the

addressees are seen in the sentences or not. No addressee reports presence in the
examples but the allocutive suffixes signal their presence.

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