Friday, November 24, 2017

paradigm of a verb in Telugu

Depending upon the language the paradigm of a verb from tens to thousands. In Greek, the paradigm of a verb has more than 200 forms. In Sanskrit the total paradigm of a verb has 1350 forms. Rather it is not possible for a lexicographer to include all such forms in his/her dictionary. The main aim of this topic is to study the paradigm of Telugu verb and supply the equivalents for the inflected form. As an example let us look at the verb koTTu(=to beat; mAra(Hindi)). The paradigm list for this verb contain various words like koTTAnu, koTTindi, koTTADu, koTTaanu etc. which carry different meanings – (mEne)mArA ThA(koTTAnu), nahIM mArUMgA(koTTaanu). A general dictionary contains only the root word koTTu


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