2.2.2.4.
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When the verb root ends in any
other consonant or consonant cluster the enunciatively vowel / i / is
introduced. The rule reads as
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Rule 3.
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| f ®
i |
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{ c } |
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{ c1c1 } |
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c |
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{ c1c2 } |
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| da: l |
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+ |
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n ® |
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da:lin |
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____ |
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‘bloom’ |
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| vajj |
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+ |
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n ® |
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vajjin |
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____ |
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‘cook’ |
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| pinj |
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+ |
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n ® |
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pinjin |
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____ |
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‘bounce’ |
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Exceptions to the above rule are hal ‘go’, and verb roots ending in n
where following change takes place.
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Rule 4.
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Rule 5.
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WORD CLASSES
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3.0.
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Kuvii has the following classes of words: |
3.1.
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Nouns are identified on purely morphological grounds. A noun
is distinguished for the categories of gender, number and case. A stem
inflected for one or more of those categories in the order given above is
called a noun stem.
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e.g. simple stem
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| koyyu |
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‘fowl’ |
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| kosku |
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‘fowls’ |
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| kosku ki |
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‘to the fowls’ |
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3.2.
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Adjectives, are identified primarily on syntactic grounds.
Adjectives always precede the nouns they modify. Adjectives are usually
monomorphemic. Morphologically adjectives are indeclinable for categories
of gender, number and case.
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e.g
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3.3.
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Verbs, are identified by the categories of tense--mode, aspect
and negation. Stems inflected for these categories are called verb stems.
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