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A DESCRIPTIVE ANALYSIS OF YERAVA
B. MALLIKARJUN
bc:yi   ‘to get heated’
no:yi   ‘to pain’
be:yi-c-e
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be:yice
  ‘I backed’
 
(ii)   Verbs taking -x- as transitivizer
aex   ‘to close’
kirex   ‘to weep’
nanex   ‘to get wet’
murix   ‘to break (stick)’
aex-c-e
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(R. 1)
aece
  ‘I closed’
Uex-c-e
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(R. 1)
uece
  ‘I broke’
 
(iii)   Verbs taking -t- as transitivizer.
a:-   ‘to shake’
ku:-   ‘to assemble, to add’
a:-c-e-
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(R. 11)
a:ice
  ‘I shook’
 
5.2.   Transitive
There are four transitive markers in Yerava. They are,
-k-, -t-, -i-, -x-.
{-k-} -k-, -t-, -i-, -x-.
  -k- occurs with the verbs having -ng, -g before the enunciative vowel.
ua:ng-k-   (R. 7, 24)
ua:ku
  ‘to dry’
 
 - x- occurs with transilivizable intransitive verb stems taking -nj- past tense marker.
aex
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(R. 1)
ae
  ‘to close’
 
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