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English: And cottonwood and spruce had no partners. |
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Conjunction |
Subject |
Conjunction |
Subject |
Negative |
Prefix Positions |
Stem |
| Outer Subject Pronoun |
Outer Subject Pronoun |
Mode/Aspect
T+Mode+P |
Classifier |
| Morphemes |
Ch'u |
eseni |
ch'u |
ch'bala |
k'usht'a |
qe |
qe |
i + Ø |
ł |
keł |
| Morpheme Changes |
|
usually written esni in outer dialect |
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usually written ch'wala in outer dialect |
|
h |
q |
i |
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| qe changes to h when preceding a consonant |
e deletes to avoid double vowels |
i is used with perfect mode and negative k'usht'a |
| English |
And |
cottonwood |
and |
spruce |
no, not |
they |
object - abstract thing [partners] |
imperfect |
|
get, obtain
Mode: imperfect
Aspect: perambulative
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| Verb Theme |
Object + ł classifier + kit (root) |
| Meaning |
grap, grasp, take, get, obtain (obtain the object) |
| Theme Class |
unclassified |
| Type |
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| Stem Set: Root = kit, Tag = classify food (neq from a different root) |
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Mode |
| Aspect |
Imperfect |
Perfect |
Future |
Optative |
| Momentaneous |
kit |
kit/neq |
keł |
kit |
| Neuter |
kit |
kit |
kit |
kit |
| Perambulative |
keł |
ket |
keł |
ket |
| Successive |
ket |
ket |
ket |
ket |
