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Zulu Newspaper Reader - Dunwoody Press

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ec past recent past<br />

redup reduplicative<br />

refl reflexive<br />

rel relative; relationship<br />

rel conc relative concord<br />

rel suff relative suffix<br />

rem past remote past<br />

SAJAL South African<br />

Journal of African<br />

Languages<br />

SC subject concord<br />

subjunc subjunctive (mood)<br />

suff suffix<br />

v verb, verbal<br />

var variant<br />

VC vowel + consonant<br />

v.i. intransitive verb<br />

v.i. & t. verb which is both<br />

transitive and<br />

intransitive<br />

SYMBOLS<br />

xi<br />

transitive and<br />

intransitive<br />

v.inch inchoative verb<br />

v-appl verb with applied<br />

extension<br />

v-caus verb with causative<br />

extension<br />

v-intens verb with intensive<br />

extension<br />

vn verbal noun<br />

v-neut verb with neuter<br />

extension<br />

v-pass verb with passive<br />

extension<br />

v-recip verb with reciprocal<br />

extension<br />

v.t. transitive verb<br />

v.tt. distransitive verb<br />

< derives from<br />

> produces, yields, results in<br />

Ø- a zero prefix, i.e. a theoretical prefix that has no actual<br />

realization in speech<br />

VERB represents any verb<br />

-Y- causative suffix which is apparent only in the effect it has on<br />

a preceding consonant, i.e.,<br />

k + -Y- > s<br />

l + -Y- > z

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