Re: motion verbs in Tokana

dirk elzinga <dirk.elzinga@...> wrote:

>This reminds me of Uto-Aztecan instrumental prefixes--sort of.
>The UA prefixes indicate an instrument by means of which some
>activity is performed.
Are there many such prefixes? I seem to recall that many Native
American languages have huge stocks of affixes like those,
which in other langs one would only expect to find as roots.

And do they have anything to do with oligosynthesis? (I ask
this because UA, I think, was mentioned regarding this
phenomenon, and the idea of many small affixes coming
together to form complex words rings a bell...)


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