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`put away, put somewhere for
safekeeping'. The aspectual verb ÙÂ¿Õ vayyiAnnamalai calls this the
verb of anticipated consequence.' has a lexical analog ÙÂ¿Õ vayyi
`take, put s.t. somewhere for safekeeping'. It is usually used with transitive
main verbs only (since the MV ÙÂ¿Õ vayyi is definitely transitive,)
but may occur with some intransitive verbs, such as ¶ÕÀÕ siri
`laugh' (see example below). Other aspectual verbs (e.g. ÂÕà (v)idu ) may follow ÙÂ¿Õ vayyi , but when present ÙÂ¿Õ vayyi
always follows immediately after the AVP of the main verb. The aspectual
notion conveyed by vayyi is the notion that some action is performed
because it will have future consequences, use or benefit; it is often
translatable as `in reserve' or `up', e.g. `stock up (on)', `read up (on)
something, `study up on something', `lay in (or up) a stock of (something)',
and implies that an action is done with an eye to future consequences, or
preemptively. In the examples below, the glossed portion within square
brackets is not literally present in the Tamil sentence, but is given as one
or more of the consequences that the use of ÙÂ¿Õ vayyi implies.
Vasu Renganathan
Sat Nov 2 21:16:08 EST 1996