Re: Dropping from the root

dirk elzinga sikayal:

> Other SUA languages that I can find which show truncation are
> (besides Tepiman, which includes Pima, Papago, Pima Bajo, and
> the Tepehuan languages) Tarahumara and Nahuatl. In Tarahumara,
> it seems to be the final CV which drops off:
>
>         rahini     raha -re
>         burn    >  burn -PAST
>         'burns'    'burned'
Providing the counterexample to the assertion that a truncated form cannot
take further affixes?


Jesse S. Bangs jaspax@u.washington.edu

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