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A DESCRIPTIVE ANALYSIS OF YERAVA
B. MALLIKARJUN
Simple Verb stems of class III
Past tense marker -nj-
Sub-class 1 Inherent transitive
ari   ‘to know’
eri   ‘to throw’
kae   ‘to shake’
kae   ‘to loose’
kue   ‘to sprinkle’
tin-   ‘to eat’
pare   ‘to talk’
me:y-   ‘to graze’
Sub-class 2 Non-transitivizable intransitive
ka:y-   ‘to boil’
ku:l-   ‘to bend’
kol-   ‘to kill’
pa:y-   ‘to run’
mure   ‘humming of honey bees’
ci:y-   ‘to rot’
cori   ‘to itch’
nil-   ‘to stand’
ne:l-   ‘to hang’
po:-   ‘to go’
Sub-class 3 Transitivizable intransitive
(i) Verbs taking -x- transitivizer
ae   ‘to close’
ii   ‘to hit’
ue   ‘to break’
oli   ‘to fall, to drop’
kai   ‘to itch, to bite’
kire   ‘to weep’
kure   ‘to become less’
 
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