The relative participle in -iya of modern Malayalam

✍ Scribed by A. Govindankutty

• Book ID: 104654338
• Publisher: Brill
• Year: 1977
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 863 KB
• Volume: 19
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0019-7246
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00183517

✦ Synopsis

cruel', which are commonly called 'adjectives'. Although morphologically fully

The past tense suffix -/-is found in all the South Dravidian languages (see Appendix II). In Toda, Kota and Tulu, it has secondarily become -y-. Relative participles in -iya and -in a are also found in Kodagu where they have become -iy~ and -in~. Outside South Dravidian, the -ina type is also found in Telugu where the suffix -inoccurs after almost every verb stem. In some definable cases both -ina and -a occur, e.g., pad.-ina and pad.d.-a 'which fell'. The -iya type is here non-existent. See Subramanyam, P. S., Dravidian Verb Morphology (A Comparative Study), Annamalainagar (1971), p. 142, pp. 217-219 and p. 234. 2 Another problem which is closely connected With this development is the alternation of the conditional verbal participle forms such as collin_~l/colliygd 'if (one) said'. The analogical form collin~d has the same history as that of the relative participle form collina 'who said'. At present, it is not our intention to pursue further the historical development of these conditionals.