Some Topics in the Development of OIA MIA NIA

Author(s): H C Bhayani
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad

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Intransitives funcetioning as transitives
1. There is an exceptional group of verbs, which although is transitive takes an object. But mostly this object is specific in that it is a verbal action noun derived from the corresponding verb and repeats the meaning of the verb.
te khel khelyo te pherā pharyo (hoļi khelyo) ame pher-phudarời pharyā te cāl cālyo
te kaļvā bol bolyo te tap tapyo
baļad cāro caryo te nāc nācyo
rasto vāk vaļe che te nahāņ nahāi
2. The verbs cūk ‘forget, miss, fail?, jam-, 'eat', paran 'marry', bhan- 'learn', bhūl- ‘forget, miss, loose’, raļ 'earn’, var ‘marry', śikh' 'learn' are used transitively and take the active construction in the perfective.
hũ nem cūkyo ' I missed the target' hũ śikhamd jamyo‘I ate śikhard'. tame bāji jityā “you won the game' tame bāji hāryā 'you lost the game' Rames Ramāne parnyo 'Rames married Ramă' hû rās ramyo 'I played the Rās dance'. (i. e. danced) te vyākran bhanyo ‘he learnt grammar? tame rasto bhalyā “you forgot the road'. hữenŭ nām visari gayo' I forgot his name? hũ ghaņū dhan raļyo ' I earned much wealth' Ramā Rameś ne vari ‘Ramā married Rames' Ramā aṁgreji śikhi ‘Ramā learnt English' Note in this connection the following observation by Masica :
'While Hindi, Punjabi, Lahanda, Sindhi, Gujarati, Marathi, West Pahari, Rajasthani, and Kashmiri have preserved the original split-ergative pattern (although in Marathi it has lost some transitives