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Re: Dropping from the root

From:Marcus Smith <smithma@...>
Date:Wednesday, July 18, 2001, 18:47
Dirk Elzinga wrote:

>On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Marcus Smith wrote: >I found a Papago example as well: > > es. 'is/was planting' (s. is s with an underdot) > e-i 'planted' > >I don't know what the -i is, but is clearly attached to the >truncated root. Are there any -i's in Pima?
-i shows up in imperatives. According to the Papago dictionary by Saxton, Saxton, and Enos, this verb is not completely regular. The irregularities in the paradigm are: esh imperfective, customary ei perfective (rather than ee if it is a truncating stem, esh otherwise) e'esha repretative (rather than e'esh) ees imperative (rather than eshi) I haven't encountered this verb in Pima very many times, typically only when I misprounce e'es 'steal'. I haven't ever heard the final consonant as [sh] though, always [s], so I think there might be some paradigm leveling going on. Marcus Smith Unfortunately, or luckily, no language is tyrannically consistent. All grammars leak. -- Edward Sapir

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