| Preface
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| Errata
| |
| Phonology
| 1 |
| Inventory | 1 |
| Contrasts | 2 |
| Description | 3 |
| Clusters | 9 |
| Morphology
| 11 |
| General remarks | 11 |
| Verbs | 11 |
| Compound Verbal bases | 12 |
| Classification of the verbal bases | 13 |
| Intransitive and Transitive | 13 |
| Causal bases | 14 |
| Reflexive bases | 16 |
| Sample Paradigms Affirmative Forms | 17 |
| Negative Forms | 18 |
| Irregular base undu to be | 19 |
| Allomorphy of personal suffixes | 20 |
| Present tense | 21 |
| Past tense | 23 |
| Imperfact | 24 |
| Perfact | 25 |
| Future tense | 25 |
| Imperative | 26 |
| Optative | 31 |
| Abusive | 32 |
| Negative forms | 32 |
| Non-finite forms | 35 |
| Morphophonemic alternants of verbal bases | 40 |
| Restrictions of verbal bases | 42 |
| Nominal bases | 43 |
| Nouns derived from verbal bases | 44 |
| Nouns derived from nominal bases | 47 |
| Plural | 50 |
| Cases | 54 |
| Vocative | 54 |
| Genitive | 54 |
| Dative | 57 |
| Locative | 58 |
| Post-positions | 58 |
| Sample paradigm of nominal bases | 60 |
| Pronouns and demonstratives | 60 |
| Numerals | 64 |
| Echo-words | 64 |
| Particles | 65 |
| Texts
| 68 |
| Tree means money | 68 |
| Narsayya likes pulse, Narsamma likes shoe | 69 |
| The Horse followed the money | 71 |
| Lingayya's Happiness | 72 |
| The Knot | 73 |
| A Washerman | 77 |
| How did a crow drink water | 77 |
| The Dog obtains meat | 78 |
| Two Friends | 78 |
| The Minister's Wit | 80 |
| A Dream seen during daytime | 81 |
| The ears of king Midas are like that of an Ass | 82 |
| King Solomon's Story | 83 |
| A beggar's luck | 83 |
| One should listen all, (but) do what comes to mind | 84 |
| Vocabulary
| 86 |
