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English: At the last lake I came upon a beaver lodge. |
Mode/Aspect = Transitional (T) + Mode + Perfective (P)
| Adverb | Noun | Object of Postposition (Directional) |
Postposition | Object | Prefix Positions | Stem | ||||
| Thematic | Mode/Aspect T+Mode+P |
Inner Subject Pronoun | Classifier | |||||||
| Morphemes | Undadi | ben | en- | -n'at | k'enuy'a qan | ghe | ne + i | esh | Ø | (y)u |
| Morpheme Changes | en'at | n | ||||||||
| en + -n'at = en'at; n deletes | e and i delete to avoid double vowels | |||||||||
| English< | Last | lake | off | in an area | beaver lodge | a series of movements | perfect | I |
singular goes Mode: perfect Aspect: momentaneous |
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| Verb Theme | Ø classifier + (y)u (root) |
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| Meaning | singular, dual goes, walks |
| Theme Class | motion |
| Type |
| Stem Set: Root = (y)u, Tag = singular goes | ||||
| Mode | ||||
| Aspect | Imperfect | Perfect | Future | Optative |
| Momentaneous | (y)ush | yu | yuł | yu/yux, yish |
| Reversative | yuh | yu | yuh | yuh |
| Repetative | yux | yuk | yux | yix |
| Customary | yix | yik | yix | |
| Perambulative | yuł | duk | dush | dush/dish |
| Progressive | yuł | yił | ||
| Continuative | yu | |||
| Persistive | yuh | yu | yuh | yuh |
| Distributive | yu | |||
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