The Treatment of Morphology in Tolkāppiyam

According to Tolkāppiyaṇār adjectival participles adverbial participles allomorphs āṇ avan Caldwell Cankam literature cariyai Cēnā Cēṇāvaraiyar cited classified clitics Commentary on TC commentators compounds defective verbs derivative nouns Dravidian Dravidian languages epicene epicene plural evident expletive particles finite verbs flexional increments free form free variation future tense grammarians grammatical Hockett identified imperatives itaiccol kurippu L. V. Ramaswami Aiyar later-day masculine meaning Meenakshisundaran morphemes morphology Naccinarkkiniyar negative neuter plural neuter singular nominative non-finite verbs non-rational class Noun Class nouns denoting optatives P. S. Sastri participial nouns pattern finite verbs person marker personal pronouns Pillai predicates prepound pronominal terminations rational class refers sandhi second person verbs segmented signification so-called appellative verbs sub-classes of nouns suffix sūtra taking case markers tām Tamil language tense marker Teyvaccilaiyar third person Tolkappiyam Tolkappiyaṇār says uriccol usage verbal nouns verbal roots verbal stems vocative vowels Zvelebil