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A DESCRIPTIVE ANALYSIS OF YERAVA
B. MALLIKARJUN
(ii)   Verbs taking -t- transitivizer.
naat-   ‘to walk’
purat-   ‘to give birth’
naa-t-t-e
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(R. 24)
naalute
  ‘I made to walk’
 
5.1.2.   Simple verb steins of class II
This class consists of all the verbs taking -nd- as the pasttense marker. The verb stems belonging to this class are further classified into three groups.
 
Sub-class 1
The verbs belonging to this sub-class are inherent transitives.
aa   ‘to measure’
kaa   ‘to cross’
tura   ‘to open’
Kaa-nd-e >  
kaande
  ‘I crossed’
 
Sub-class 2
The verbs belonging to this sub-class are non-transitivisable intransitives.
ir-   'to be'
 
Sub-class 3
The verbs belonging to this sub-class are transitivizable intransitives.
 
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