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336 7 Verbal morphology
d. like (c), but (except before V-initial suffix or clitic) all the stems
undergo resyllabification by Final-CC Schwa-Insertion (44), which
entails (in T-ka) Epenthetic-Vowel Accentuation (70) overriding the
ablaut accent
'be spacious' -t-ilaw (/-t-ilwi-/) -t-ilaw (/-t-ilwi-/)
'leave in PM' -t-idaw (/-t-idwi-/) -t-idaw (/-t-idwi-/)
The melody of the LoImpfN is pervasive in (338). The LoImpfN has
no ablaut accent, and it preserves the underlying length of all stem V's.
However, χ-f does lengthen the final V in trisyllabic or longer LoImpfN stems
(as in the LoImpfP and Prohib), e.g. -t-adubun- from stem -dubvn- 'marry'.
If the inflected word containing the LoImpfN stem has fewer than three
syllables (or fewer than two, if a stem-final V has been deleted), a phrasal
accent appears on the preceding Negative waer, as in wser 0-baddad 'she does
not stand up' (with deleted /t-/ 3FeSg subject prefix).
In (338.d), the final /CC/ (after Stem-Final i/A-Deletion) is resyllabified,
and in T-ka has final-syllable accent (§3.3.2). Since the two known verbs of
type (338.d), i.e. stems with shape -uPQu- where Q is a sonorant and Ρ is not,
have characteristic long imperfective melody, the result is three-way
homophony between LoImpfN, LoImpfP, and Prohib. When a V-initial suffix
or clitic is added, the forms in (338.d) are realized as LoImpfN and Prohib
unaccented -t-ilw- and -t-ldw-, theoretically distinct from LoImpfP -t-ilw- and
-t-idw- with marked accents, but the suffix or clitic V counts in Default
Accentuation, so the underlying accentual distinction is overridden: t-ilwa-n
'they-Ma are spacious', negated as war t-ilwa-n, with /-t-ilwi-/ and /-t-llwi-/,
respectively, plus 3MaPl -aen. Examples of the LoImpfN are in (339).
(339) a. dywa snna-\0-s haeraet rarad
well say.Imprt-\Dat-3Sg thing all
war 1-rallal [d-sasl i-daer]
Neg 3MaSgS-be.eternal.LoImpfN [Sg-dayProx-Anaph]
'Well, tell him that nothing at all lasts forever nowadays.' [K]
b. waer an-jabbas
Neg lPlS-tie.on.LoImpfN
'We do not tie on (=wear wraps).' [K]
7.2.5.3 Prohibitive stem (Prohib) and negative imperative constructions
In this section I describe the form of the Prohib stem, then describe prohibitive
(=negative imperative) constructions. The Prohib stem, part of the long
imperfective system, has the ablaut features in (340). It differs from the
