At 12:59 PM -0600 12/21/02, Nik Taylor wrote:
>Mangiat wrote:
>> nic-qua in nacatl
>> 1s-eat * meat
>>
>> (where * is some sort of object mark or a determiner, perhaps) and:
>>
>> ni-naca-qua
>> 1s-meat-eat
>>
>> Makes sense?
>
>My guess would be that the {c} in _nicqua in nacatl_ is an applicative:
>
>ni-c- qua in naca-tl
>1s-applicative-eat (oblique case marker) meat-(absolutive?)
Nope. It's the third person singular object prefix. This prefix isn't present in the
incorporated form below.
>Ni-naca-qua
>1s-meat-eat
Dirk
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