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8.5 Participles (subject relatives) 485
'move out'
PerfP w-α 0-aehonas-n t-α t-aehonae-t w-i aehonae-nen
Resit w-α 0-aehonae-n t-α t-aehonae-t w-i aehonae-nen
'Enter' -vjjvs- and 'drink' -vswi> are light stems, while 'move out' -honu-
(more specifically -hinu- in several dialects) is middleweight. In all participles
for 'enter' and 'drink', it is possible to distinguish PerfP from Resit due to the
Resit accent formative χ-pcl, even though the lengthening formative is
removed by χ-pcl Erasure in definite participles (for these formatives see
§7.2.2.2). This does not work for the middleweight verb 'move out'. Although
there is an underlying χ-pcl in the Resit participles, it targets the medial o,
which in the PerfP is targeted by Default Accentuation. In PI Partpl
aehonae-nen, the targeted vowel is the antepenult. In 0-aehonae-n and
t-aehonae-t, and also inl-swas-n and t-aswae-t for 'drink', i.e. in participles of
non-augment V-final verbs, the surface penultimate accent shows that Default
Accentuation applies before VV-Contraction, e.g. to /t-aehonae-aet/. We also
observe Presuffixal α-Shortening with 'drink' and 'move out', most obviously
in the PI participles but also (before VV-Contraction) in the MaSg and FeSg.
χ-pcl Erasure also accounts for the fact that the i which appears after stem
C, in Resit stems of many superheavy stems, and which I analyse as a
manifestation of χ-pcl, does not appear in definite participles. Thus -xvbubu-
(+ -t) 'have a gaping hole' has PerfP -aexbabae-t and with χ-pcl Resit
-axibabae-t. In a definite relative clause with Resit participle, the i (and the
Short-V Harmony that it triggers) are absent: w-α 0-aexbcibe-n 'the one with a
gaping hole', differing only by accent from PerfP counterpart w-α
0-aexbabe-n 'the one that became wide open'. With augment verbs, before
Participial suffixes as before subject suffixes, VV-Contraction precedes
Default Accentuation, hence the antepenultimate accent in 0-aexbabe-n.
χ-pcl Erasure does not shorten lexical full V's.
Textual examples of Resit participles are in (501).
(501) a. t-aha hasraet [dasr haeraet-asn]
3FeSgS-be.in.Reslt thing [in thing-MaPl]
[w-"i-\taenaet anfae-nen]
[Ma-Dem.Pl-\3FeP10 benefit.Reslt-Partpl.Pl]
'One of the things is in it (a plant) that benefits them
(livestock).'
b. i-hannaey "ae-mrar
3MaSgS-see.LoImpfP Sg-old.man
0-aeqqimae-n,
3MaSgS-sit.Reslt-Partpl.MaSg
[a waer i-hannay
[Dem Neg 3MaSgS-see.LoImpfN
