Re: USAGE: Miapimoquitch directionals

>I've been working on Miapimoquitch derivational morphology, and I
>thought I'd present some stuff on directional suffixes and predicates which
>has more or less congealed now. First, here's some general
>information about the morphological structure of the Miapimquitch
>clause. (This is best viewed in a monowidth font; there's tables and
>stuff.)
::snip::

Cool. Very impressive, at least to me.

>There are three directional suffixes (so far, though I don't think it's
>likely to change):
>
>-si  'towards'
>-hu  'away from'
>-wea 'general motion; within, about'
>
::snip::

>There are also independent predicates which can indicate locations or
>directions such as _anai_ 'up(wards)', _nuu_ 'down(wards)', _tunpa_
>'in, into', _sea_ 'out of', etc. These predicates may compose with a
>predicate indicating motion to form a complex predicate. In tabular
>form, this looks like:
Tsalagi has some similar concepts. I was going to say that the one it has
which Miapimoquitch doesn't is a suffix meaning "across/through", but with
the independent predicates, Miapimoquitch covers that and even more.

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