Bantawa Rai s-, t-, and z-final verb roots: transitives, intransitives, causatives, and directives

Abstract

At the Twelfth International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics. Paris. i 979, Michailovsky presented a paper. "Tibeto-Burman dental suffixes: evidence from Limbu- (Michailovsky 1979), in which he analysed Limbu verb roots into three phonological classes. two of them based on root-final consonant clusters containing -S or -T, e.g., -PS. -MS. -TT, -NT (together with -S and. In some cases, -T), and the third a contrasting clusterless class containing either a final single consonant or a final vowel, e.g.. -P. -M. -N. -R, and -0 (and, in some cases. -T). To these phonological classes he went on to attribute morphosyntactic categories. transitive, intransitive, and deponent. and the semantic notions -causative," -directive," etc.