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8.5 Participles (subject relatives) 493
in PerfP inflected forms of the same augment verbs with subject suffixes of the
shape /aeC/, e.g. aedwaenne-n 'they conversed'.
Although this contraction to e applies in MaSg and FeSg participles of
both augment and non-augment stems, there is a difference between the two
verb classes in that augment verbs have Default Accentuation apply after
VV-Contraction, hence the antepenultimate accent in e.g. 0-aedwaenne-n
(514.a). This is consistent with the ordering of these rules in regular inflected
forms of augment verbs. When the accent of a participle of an augmented verb
is penultimate, this is due to Resit ablaut accent formative χ-pcl, as in
i-ddare-n 'plump-MaSg' and its FeSg counterpart t-addare-t (cf. Resit
-addsrae-t). By contrast, both in participles and in regular inflected forms, non-
augment V-final stems have Default Accentuation apply before
VV-Contraction, so we end up with surface penultimate accent in e.g.
LoImpfP participle w-α i-t-aeraeyme-n 'the one-Ma who is sitting'.
8.5.6 Participles built on preverbal particles
8.5.6.1 Participles with Negative w&r
Subject relatives with a negation are constructed by participializing (i.e. adding
Participial suffixes to) the Negative particle waer. The MaSg is -aen and the
FeSg is -aet as in simple verb participles, but the PI ending is now also -aen
(homophonous with the MaSg), as seen in (515). In K-f, the Participial suffixes
lose their short V, resulting in PI and MaSg n- and FeSg t-. In Im dialect, n-
generalizes from Masg and PI to FeSg, and is prosodically part of the
following verb.
(515) Participial Forms of Negative w®r
MaSg FeSg PI dialect
waer-aen waer-ast wser-aen K-d, R, T-ka
waer-n waer-t waer-n K-f
waer n- waer n- wEer n- Im
The inflected verb (PerfN, LoImpfN) itself follows the participialized
negative. In the MaSg and FeSg cases, the verb has the same form it would
have following waer in a non-participial clause. Therefore the MaSg begins in
i-, which is audible before a C or a verb beginning in underlying schwa (but is
zeroed, as usual, before ae or a full V). The FeSg begins in t-, which is audible
before any V, but is deleted before CV... However, the expected 3MaPl or
3FePl subject suffix is absent in this negative participial construction (cf.
3MaPl -aen and 3FePl -naet with ordinary inflected verbs).
