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A DESCRIPTIVE ANALYSIS OF YERAVA
B. MALLIKARJUN
bai    ta:nginjo
  1          2
 
‘The    stick    leans’
           1         2
 
bai    ta:nguta
  1            2
 
'The    stick    leaned’
           1           2
 
na:nu    baine    ta:kinje
   1           2            3
 
‘I    lean    the    stick’
1      3                2
 
na:nu    baine    ta:kute
    1          2            3
 
‘I    leaned    the    stick’
1       3                   2
 
(ii)
The derived transitive verb taking the past tense marker other than the one taken by the corresponding intransitive verb.
Intr. nane   ‘to become wet’
Trs. nanex   ‘to become wet’
Trr. -x    
 
Intransitive
Pre. nane-yinj-o   ‘it becomes wet’
Past, nane-nj-a   ‘it became wet’
Fut. nane-v-e   ‘I will become wet’
 
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