550 8 Verbal derivation'drink' -vswu- e-m-aesaeww 'water source'
'decorate' -vrmu- t-e-n-ahrmi-t-t 'dye'c. 'emasculate' -vddvs- a-m-iidaes 'emasculated one'd. 'look to side' -vslvm- 3-n-uslem 'a look to the side'The plurals are also compatible with those of agentives (e.g. l-m-asrt-an
'trees'), except that 'water source' has, alongside regular PI i-m-asw-αη (R
T-ka) an alternative PI i-m-aesasww-an (A-grm). The latter PI suggests that
e-m-assaeww is no longer closely associated with agentives in that dialect.
Consider now (576).
(576) Nonagentive with Archaic Form of Agentiveverb gloss stem Nominal gloss'hear' -vslu- e-m-aesli 'voice'While the form e-m-aesli is a good "agentive" shape for eastern dialects,
for T-la and several other dialects a true agentive produced by productive rules
would have been appeared as #e-m-assaell (with Stem-Final i/A-Deletion (29)
leading to ^syllabification). This is another indication that a nonagentive
"agentive" can separate itself morphologically from the agentive pack. One
cannot tell whether T-ka e-m-aesli is an inherited archaism or a dialect
borrowing.
A similar case retaining the final i is in (577), but here the nominal is
semantically related not to the unprefixed verb (-vktu- 'remember') but to a
lexically and phonologically irregular Mediop stem (-n-vktu-).
(577) Another Nonagentive with Archaic Form of Agentive
verb gloss stem Nominal gloss'do by habit' -n-vktu- e-n-aekti 'habit'In other cases, the nonagentive nominal is clearly distinguished by
vocalism from agentives. A number of distinct patterns can be identified, none
of them highly productive. The type labels show m- but of course this appears
as n- if the stem contains a labial.