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A DESCRIPTIVE ANALYSIS OF YERAVA
B. MALLIKARJUN
CHAPTER V
VERB MORPHOLOGY
The Yerava stems capable of taking tense markers are classified Blurb stems. The verb stems are further grouped into three groups. They are
Group A
 : Simple verb stems
having only one free verb stem.
Group B
 : Complex or compound verb stems
having more than one free verb stem.
Group C
 : Conjunct verb stems
having a free verb stem suffixed-to an adjective or a noun stem.
 
5.1.    Simple verb stems
The simple verb stems are classified into four classes on basis of the past tense marker they take.
Class
Past tense marker
I
-t-
II
-nd-
III
-nj-
IV
-c-
 
The verb stems of these classes are sub-classified into transitives and intransitives. The intransitives are classified into intransitive (1), which consists of the nontransitivizable intransitives and intransitive (2) which consists of the transitivizable intransitives.
 
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