geri-ã ®
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gerIyã
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‘girls(obl.pl.)
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pi-€
®
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piy€
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‘(may) drink’(II & IIIp. sg.)
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tò-€
®
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tòw€
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‘(may) wash’(II &
IIIp.sg.)
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p-€
®
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pw€
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‘(may) fall’(II & IIIp.
sg.)
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p-ẽ
®
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pwẽ |
‘(may) fall’(II & IIIp.pl.)
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lá-€
®
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láw€
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‘(may) put off’ (II & III p.sg.)
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Any root endig in retroflex nasal, lateral and flap when followed by a
suffix beginning with {-}
then this following {-}
changes to {-n}.
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Examples are :
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khU--o
®
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khUno
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‘to dig’
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p--o
®
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pno
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‘to read’
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ga--o
®
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gano
|
‘to cook’
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sa--o
®
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sano
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‘to burn’ etc.
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CHAPTER III
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Morphology
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In this section the formation of words is dealt with. The words
are of two types-inflected and uniflected. Inflected words will always be
polymorphemic and the words which are further indivisible into morphemes
are monomorphemic. In this langauge connectives, emphatic particles,
sentence negatives and most of the postpositions are indeclinables.
Inflected words will have stems and inflectional endings. Further a stem
can be a root stem, a root followed by a stem formative and a compound
stem having two or more roots.
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In this part on the basis of form and function different word classes
nominals, adjectives, verbs, adverbs and particles etc., are set up and
described.
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Morphologically nominals are those word forms which take case markers
and syntactically these forms constitute nominal phrases which occur as
subject and
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