10.3 Pronominal clitics 605(669) 3MaSg Object Clitics (T-ka)allomorph distribution-\e after stem-final α of verb;
after verb-stem-final C(C) due to Stem-Final i/A-
Deletion (§3.1.2.4)
-\tt intervocalic (including after Future a-);
phrase-final after V
-\t after Negative waer before V-initial verb;
phrase-final after single C;
after Future a- or Focus a before C-initial verb;
after clitic-final single C (e.g. cliticized preposition)
Aatt after preverbal C-final focalized word, before V
Aat after preverbal C-final focalized word, before CThe major cut here is between -\e and the consonantal forms. The latter
have a basic form /-\tt/ (see below for a possible extra V). Schwa-Epenthesis
accounts for the variants with a. After Schwa-Epenthesis, the geminate is
simplified to t if adjacent to a C on either side.
The consonantal allomorphs behave as though they had a vowel (see
below for dialectal Ati), for purposes of Default Accentuation. Thus
anhaey-asqAq Ί saw him', accented on the word penult, as though from
/anhaey-aer-tV/. For T-ka, however, the lost V does not appear overtly in any
context. If necessary, Schwa-Epenthesis can insert schwa before the IM when
the latter is sandwiched between other C's, as in ... sAat t-aqqaen-aed '...by
which you built it'.
The e of the first column is, one presumes, in some sense the "same" e as
that resulting from contraction of stem-final α with the /ae/ of the other 3rd
person object clitics. Taking this (and the preceding observation about accent)
to a logical conclusion, one could posit a representation /tae/ for the 3MaSg
object clitic. When the initial t of 3rd person object clitics is deleted after an
α-final verb, the remaining /ae/ contracts with the stem-final /a/ in the same
way seen above. However, as a practical matter I will hyphenate the 3MaSg
object combinations as ...Ae.
Examples of Ae are PerfP t-sqrAe 'she killed him' (<t-3qra), LoImpfP
i-salhAe 'he made him weep' (c-sdlha-), LoImpfP i-tottAe 'he eats it' (<-tatt-
for/-tdttA-/), Imprt s-smm-aswAe 'give him another drink!' (<s-3mm-3saw
for/s-amm-aswi/), Imprt arAe 'open-Sg it!' (<ar for /ari/). Examples of
variants containing t are 0-ojaeyAt 'he tied him', a-\tt awat-naet 'they-FePl
will hit him', i-firruAtt 'he inherits it'.
Initial /t/ or Dd in a clitic is subject to assimilation to a preceding stop (or
r, which hardens to a stop). The conversions are shown in (670). The
assimilations affecting /t/ in 3rd person clitics are identical to those affecting