jeff_l
(Jeff_L)
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322 7 Verbal morphology
b. aegr-aer-et-\tast
kill.Shlmpf- lSgS-Hort-\3FeSgO
'Let me kill her!'
c. n-as-et-\0dd
lPl-go.ShImpf-Hort-\Centrip
'Let's come!'
My R speaker gave hortatives that generally agreed with those given above
(which are from T-ka). R examples are in (326). For C-final verbs, the R
informant truncated and merged the usual 3MaPl -aen and 3FePl -naet as -n-
before Hortative C)-et. The result is O-n-et, arguably fused into a special 3P1
Hortative portmanteau C)-net (326.d). For unaugmented V-final verbs, he
merged 3MaPl and 3FePl but used the normal 3MaPl subject form before
O-et (326.e). In (326.b) we see a homorganic semivowel w rather than h (as
in T-ka) separating a stem-final V from the suffix-initial e.
(326) R Dialect Hortatives
a. n-aegl-et
1 PIS-go.Shlmpf-Hort
'Let's go!' (R)
b. n-asuw-et
lPlS-cough.Shlmpf-Hort
'Let's cough!' (R)
c. t-ajjas-et
3FeSgS-enter.ShImpf-Hort
'Let her enter!'
d. ajjas-n-et
enter.ShImpf-3MaPlS-Hort
'Let them (Ma or Fe) enter!'
e. agls-n-et
go.ShImpf-3MaPlS-Hort
'Let them (Ma or Fe) go!'
The positive hortative forms illustrated here are negated by a special
hortative negative, which is formed from the Prohib stem in the long
imperfective system (§7.2.5.6).
