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Volume 16:10 October 2016
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Historical Development of the Malayalam Present Tense Marker ‘Unnu’

Parvathy Prasad S., M.Phil.

Abstract

Malayalam is a South Dravidian language. History of the Malayalam language starts with vaazappalli inscription written in 832 AD. The present paper is an attempt to find out the development of the present tense marker ‘unnu’ in Malayalam language

Keywords: Malayalam, present tense marker, historical development.

Introduction

A comparative study of the various non-past tense forms in the Dravidian languages reveals that the formation of the present tense as distinct from the future tense is a later development in the family. The present tense suffixes in many of the languages are historically relatable to the future tense suffixes found in the same language or in the some other sister languages.

According to Keralapaanini, the Dravidian languages did not consider the present as a distinct time. In instances where Aryan languages use present tense, the Dravidian languages use future tense. The present form of the predicates is of later origin. (C J Roy, 1999).

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Parvathy Prasad S., M.Phil.
Department of Linguistics
University of Kerala
Karyavattom Campus
Thiruvananthapuram 695081
Kerala
parvathyprasads@gmail.com
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