Re: Dropping from the root

Jesse S. Bangs wrote:

>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?
Unless that tense marker is a clitic, that would clinch it.


Marcus Smith

Unfortunately, or luckily,
no language is tyrannically consistent.
All grammars leak.
                -- Edward Sapir

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