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English: In the beginning they say the animals divided up in pairs. |
Mode/Aspect = Transitional (T) + Mode + Perfective (P)
| Adverb | Subject | Object of Post- position |
Post- position |
Prefix Positions | Stem | Evidential | |||
| Adverb | Mode/Aspect T+Mode+P |
Classifier | |||||||
| Morphemes | Unhtash | ninya | nił | teh | ja | ne + i | Ø | datl' | łu |
| Morpheme Changes | ja' | i | |||||||
| glattal stop inserted before a vowel | ne deletes when preceded by a disjunct boundary | ||||||||
| English | First, beginning | animals | each other | among | in half (paired up) | perfect |
go (as in divided up), plural stem Mode: perfect Aspect: momentaneous |
it is said, they say | |
| Verb Theme | Ø classifier + datl' (root) |
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| Meaning | plural go, walk; or plural fish swim |
| Theme Class | Motion |
| Type |
| Stem Set: Root = datl', Tag = plural go | ||||
| Mode | ||||
| Aspect | Imperfect | Perfect | Future | Optative |
| Durative | dał | datl' | dał | dił/dał |
| Distributive | dał | datl' | dał | dał |
| Momentaneous | dał | datl' | deł | dił/dał |
| Perambulative | deł | datl' | deł | deł |
| Progressive | deł | |||
| Reversative | deł | datl' | deł | dił |
| Semelfactive | deł | deł | ||
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