Re: Question about Morpheme Orders in Verbs.

From:    Elliott Lash <erelion12@...>
> I'm trying to figure out if there are many languages
> in which personal endings are not at the periphery of
> the verbal complex. what I mean by this is if a verbal
> complex can have a form like:
>
> A)   1) VERB_ROOT + PERSONAL_MORPHOLOGY + TENSE/MOOD
>         V+P+T
Meskwaki is such a language:

    e:h-in-et-i
    aorist-speak.thus.to-X>3-Conj
    'One spoke thus to him.'

Here, the personal morphology comes before the mode sign,
here the conjunct mode found very frequently in texts.  My
understand is that all the Algonquian languages used to, but
not all now do, work this way.

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