jeff_l
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350 7 Verbal morphology
c. long imperfective system
LoImpfP I-P0QQA-I -FiQQu- -FiQQu-
LoImpfN 1-PsQQi-l -PaQQu- -PaQQu-
Prohib /-PaeQQA-/ -PaQQu- -PaQQu-
d. nominalization
VblN [no standard pattern, see discussion below]
In the remainder of the present section I will cover the α/ι subclass.
§7.3.1.4 will consider the α/u and u/u subclasses. In §7.3.1.5 I turn to heavy
non-augment V-final verbs, whose treatment of the stem-final V follows that
of the all subclass. In §7.3.1.6 I discuss the rather different paradigm of
V-final verbs (all heavy) that take the -t- augment.
The ah subclass, alone of the light V-final subclasses, has no u vowels.
One could experiment with either -v(C)Ca- or -v(C)Ci- as a basic lexical
representation, but the choice between them is difficult because the vocalism
in each actual stem can be attributed to overlain vocalic melodies, and since
(as we have already seen in §7.3.1.2) lexical /i/ is rather unstable, often
shifting to a.
Anyway, the α/ι subclass respects the predominant perfective
melody. Lacking a u, it has the expected characteristic long imperfective
melody. This could be an argument for taking the lexical stem-final V to be a,
but there are other cases where a lexical i switches to α in the long
imperfective, so the only thing we can conclude about the stem-final V is that
it is not lexical u. The most unusual feature of the subclass, shared with heavy
non-augment V-final stems (§7.3.1.5), is a composite melody in the
short imperfective system.
In this short imperfective melody, and in the LoImpfN with its
stem-wide melody, the stem-final V is targeted by Η. I transcribe the
result as III, i.e. an underspecified high vowel (arguably identifiable with hi),
in underlying representations. The hi has the manifestations summarized in
(353).
(353) Manifestations of /i/
a. word-final (with no subject suffix): zero
b. before C-initial subject suffix: a
c. VV-Contraction with lSgS /-aer/ or 2MaPl Imprt C)-aet O-aer/t
d. VV-Contraction with other 1-seCI suffix: f)...3-C.
When VV-Contraction (37.c) (§3.2.3.3) occurs, hi is counted as a vowel in
calculating the "antepenult," so here Default Accentuation precedes
VV-Contraction (§3.3.1.3). Likewise, a V deleted by Stem-Final i/A-Deletion
(29) is counted (§3.3.1.2).
