A Descriptive Analysis of Tense and Aspect in Sadri.

This paper aims at analyzing verbal suffixes in Sadri with special focus on tense and aspect inflections. The Sadri past tense and the future tense are marked by morphemes /-l-/ and /-b-/ respectively. But, there are some exceptions found in imperfective and perfective aspects in the past tense which are marked with or without the past tense marker /-l-/. The future tense marker /- b-/ is absent in the third person singular in all aspects. Likewise, the perfective aspect morpheme in Sadri is /-y ~ -i-/. The perfective aspect morpheme /-y/ gets attached to the vowel ending verbs and /-i-/ get inserted in the consonant ending verbs. The Sadri imperfective is marked by morpheme /-at ~ -t /. The morpheme / -t / is attached to the vowel ending and /-at / to the consonant ending verbs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]