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A DESCRIPTIVE ANALYSIS OF URALI
Sam Mohan Lal
            pori- ‘hatch’
            poRe- ‘pile up one after the other
            puRa:ppa- ‘start’
            to:R- ‘defeat’
            ka:sukuu- ‘tickle’
            kodi- ‘boil’
            sigi- ‘grin’
            siri- ‘laugh’
            sa- ‘die’
            mui- ‘blink’
            min- ‘stand’
            nore- ‘grey’ (v)
            vėRu eu- ‘loose motion’
            vėRu kai- ‘hunger’
4.1.3.2.2. Intransitive2 (Intr2)
Intransitive2 stems take the past tense marker -t- when they are in the intransitive mood. These verbs can be made transitive and will take the intransitive marker -t-. When the verbs are in transitive mood they take -in- as the past tense suffix.
      kė-t-ad (5.5,6,19) > keadu (Intr.) ‘be spoiled, put off’
      kėu-t-in-iri (5.1) > keuttiniri (Tr.) ‘(you pl.) spoiled’
4.1.4 Class IV
The stems which take past tense marker -dd- belong to this class of verbs.
4.1.4.1. Inherent transitives
      ėRu-dd-an (5.22) > ėRuddä ‘(he) threw’
      soRi-dd-a (5.23) > soRidda ‘(she) scratched’
      jau-dd-iri > jauddiri ‘(you pl.) plucked’
4.1.4.2. Intransitives
Intransitive (Intr1) which cannot be made transitive
      iru-dd-ad (5.19) > iruddadu ‘(it) be there’
      ėu-dd-ad (5.19) > ėuddadu ‘(it) decayed’
      ou-dd-iri > ouddiri ‘(you pl.) hid’
4.1.5. Class V
All those verb stems which take -d- as past tense marker belong to this class.
      ė:d-iri > ė:diri ‘(you pl.) wept’
      u:d-an (5.22) > u:dä ‘(he) ploughed’

                                       

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