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English: The Dena'ina had that as a hunting song for good luck. |
Mode/Aspect = Transitional (T) + Mode + Perfective (P)
| Subject | Evidential | Object | Prefix Positions | Stem | |||||
| Outer Subject Poronoun | Outer Subject Poronoun | Gender | Mode/Aspect T+Mode+P |
Classifier | |||||
| Morphemes | Dena'ina | łu | shesh k'eli | qe1 | ye | d | ghe + i | ł | 'an |
| Morpheme Changes | shesh is also written shex in outer dialect | q | ghe | ||||||
| "lowered" e deletes when followed by a consonant | i deletes to avoid double vowels | ||||||||
| English | The people | it is said, they say | lucky sign song | they | nonhuman subject | single compact object - song | perfect |
have object Mode: perfect Aspect: momentaneous |
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| Verb Theme | (d) # object + ł classifier + 'an (root) |
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| Meaning | do, gather, collect, have object |
| Theme Class | operative |
| Type |
"d" is optional and not used in this verb
| Stem Set: Root = 'an, Tag = do, see | ||||
| Mode | ||||
| Aspect | Imperfect | Perfect | Future | Optative |
| neuter | t'an | t'an | t'ił | t'an/t'ih |
| momentaneous | 'ix | 'an | 'ił | 'ił/'ix |
| continuative | 'en | 'an | 'en | 'en |
| reversative | 'ih | 'an | 'ih | 'ih |
| transitional | 'ih | 'it | 'ih | 'ih |
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