Wednesday, March 25, 2015

More on the active/stative distinction in Timucua

Continuing the theme begun in this post, I've continued looking at differences in subject inflection for various verbs.

The overall pattern so far is

Set A affixes (subjects of some verbs)
1st plural -nica
2nd plural -naqe

Set B affixes (objects; subjects of some verbs)
1st plural ni...bo
2nd plural chi...bo

Verbs with -naqe 2nd plural subject

qe 'search for'
pueno 'come'
mota 'say'
cumele 'act wickedly/voluntarily'
eca 'teach'
yame 'do repeatedly'
hulubo 'till, dig'
ahosini 'be (pl)'
orobini 'confess'



Verbs with chi...bo 2nd plural subject

eya 'live'
mani-si 'love'
quoso 'do'
nahiabo 'know'
ini 'be'
mani 'think'
qisale 'return'
hani 'fail to do'
nihi 'die'
calubo 'be punished'


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