10.3 Pronominal clitics 603c. 9kte-q-\q-\idd
remember.PerfP-lSgS-\3MaSgO-\Centrip
Ί remembered him.' [R]The verb -mvndu- means 'be completed'. With the Centripetal, it can
mean 'come to completion' in an accretive sense referring to the collection of a
sum or money, or a trip that ends by returning 'here'. With the Centrifugal it
can mean, in a diminutional sense, '(e.g. sugar) be used up'.10.3 Pronominal clitics
10.3.1 Object clitics
Pronominal object clitics can follow a simple transitive verb. If the verb is
preceded by a preverbal particle (Neg, Fut, Past), a demonstrative head of a
relative clause (e.g. MaSg w-ά), or Focus morpheme a, the clitic follows the
first such item.
The forms of pronominal clitics show some allomorphic variation, chiefly
depending on postvocalic versus postconsonantal position. I will describe the
T-ka forms, then (at the end of the section) I will detail dialectal variation.
The 1st person object clitics are identical to the corresponding dative
clitics. The T-ka forms are in (667). For the syntactic and phonological
distribution of the allomorphs, and for non-T-ka variants, see the discussion of
dative clitics in §10.3.2, below.(667) First Person Object clitics (T-ka)person preverbal postverbal
after V or C after {u i} after C after αlSg -\hi -\ha-hi Λα-hi -\0-hi
1P1 Aha-naer -\ha-naer -\a-nasr -\0-naerThe full forms are used after verbs ending in a high V. In the rightmost
column, e.g. -\hi probably derives from contraction of Λα-hi with the stem-
final a. However, the accent is on the word-antepenult, showing that Default
Accentuation applies to the output of VV-Contraction here: i-s-dlha 'he makes
weep' (LoImpfP), with lSg object i-s-alha-\hi 'he makes me weep'.
Further examples: i-t-irdu-\ha-hi and ...Aha-naer 'he believes me/us'.
i-t-iwl-\ha-hi 'he is born for me', waerAhl i-rpra and ...Aha-nseY) 'he didn't
kill me/us', i-waet-\a-hi and ...Λα-naeY 'he hit me/us', and ~i-qYa-\0-hi and
~ί-ηγα-\0-η2εγ/ 'he killed me/us'.
The 2nd and 3rd person object clitics for T-ka (confirmed for K-d),
excluding 3MaSg (on which see below), are given in (668).