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A Study of Auxiliaries in the Old and the Middle Tamil
A. Boologarambai, M.A., M.A., Ph.D.
PLAN OF THE STUDY
This work on auxiliaries in the Old and the Middle Tamil deals with the development of auxiliaries and their place in the structure of Tamil verbs.
The introductory chapter briefly gives an account of the auxiliary development, auxiliary definition and the auxiliary evaluation.
The second chapter evaluates the contribution of earlier scholars to the study of the auxiliaries in general and the Tamil auxiliaries in particular. With regard to the Tamil auxiliaries the contribution of Agesthialingom, Meenakshisundaram, Jothimuthu, Annamalai, Joseph, Ziegenbalg, Beschi, Walther, Fabricus and Breithaupt, Pope, Arden, Caldwell, Schiffman, Dale and Steever are surveyed.
The third chapter deals with the concept of auxiliary. It includes the various names of auxiliaries, the divisions (viz., historical, descriptive and applicational)and their functions (Viz., syntactic and semantic) and the classification.
The fourth chapter is devoted to the description of the main and the auxiliary verbs. In that the differences and the commonness of the main and the auxiliary verbs are defined. It also includes the descriptions regarding the verbal constructions related to the auxiliary verb constructions and its nature, characteristics and the frame of reference.
The fifth chapter deals with the Old and the Middle Tamil auxiliaries. It includes the definition of auxiliary with reference to the Tamil language, the actual frame of reference i.e. the environment to locate the auxiliaries in the Tamil sentence, classification of auxiliaries and the treatment of auxiliaries.
The sixth chapter discusses the syntactic and the semantic study of the voice auxiliaries. It begins with the descriptions of voices especially passive and gives the opinions of the various scholars regarding passives. In that the auxiliaries' paTu, peRu, cey, vai, paNNu, koL and aruL are discussed.
The seventh chapter deals with the syntactic and semantic study of the aspectual auxiliaries. It begins with the descriptions of aspects and gives the opinions of the various scholars regarding aspects. In that the auxiliaries iru, koNTiru, iTu, uRu, i:, ozhi, viTu and vai are discussed.
The eighth chapter deals with the syntactic and the semantic study of the modal auxiliaries with the description and the characteristics of them. The modal auxiliaries ve:NTum, ve:NTa:, ve:NTi, a:m, oTTu, muTiyum, muTiya:tu, ku:Tum, ku:Ta:tu, oNNUm and ma:TTu are discussed.
The ninth chapter is the analytical part of the study. In this the ordering of auxiliaries' viz., single auxiliary, double auxiliaries and triple auxiliaries are explained.
The concluding chapter tabulates the results arrived by the analysis dealt with in the above chapters.
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