jeff_l
(Jeff_L)
#1
10.3 Pronominal clitics 609
(676) i-waet-\ä-hi-\tt
3MaSgS-hit.PerfP-\Dat- 1 Sg-\3MaSgO
'He hit it for me.'
When the verb stem preceding the clitic ends in a, the clitic again lacks /h/
and the two adjacent α vowels contract into a single a. This a is treated as a
single syllable for purposes of Default Accentuation. The location of the
surface morpheme boundary is indeterminate, but I will transcribe with -\0-
after the stem-final V (677).
(677) l-nna-\0-saen
3MaSgS-say.PerfP-\Dat-3MaPl
'He said to them.'
[< /i-9nna-\ha-saen/]
The verb preceding the clitic may end in a high V {i u}, and rarely a dative
clitic may follow 3MaSg object clitic -\e. In these cases, T-ka uses the full
form of the dative clitic beginning with h. My R data show linking
semivowels, w after u and y after i.
(678) a. (T-ka) i-t-iwi-\ha-hi
b. (R) i-t-iwviy-\a-hi
3MaSgS-LoImpf-be.bom.LoImpfP-/Dat- 1 Sg
'It is born for me.'
The full h-form is also used when the dative clitic follows an object clitic,
regardless of what phonological segment the object clitic ends in. In (679.a),
the object clitic (underlying /-\t/ realized as -q- by assimilation) is C-final, but
still requires the h-form of the following dative clitic. (679.b) has an object
clitic ending in n. (679.c) shows the same construction with a V-final object
clitic.
(679) a. aess-aekf-aeq-\q-\ha-saen
Caus-gi ve.PerfP-1 SgS-\3MaSgO-\Dat-3MaPl
Ί made him give (it) to them.'
b. i-qre-\n-\ha-hi
3MaSgS-kilI.PerfP-\3MaP10-\Dat-lSg
'He killed them for me.'
c. i-waet-\a-hi-\ha-s
3MaSgS-hit.PerfP-\0-lSg-\Dat-3Sg
'He hit me for him/her.'
