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Re: [saweli] quote of the day

In a message dated 6/6/2007 8:48:15 AM Central Daylight Time, sts@hidden.email writes:


The u-y-w thing is interesting. How does it work? Maybe I got something
wrong with the "become obvious"... :-/
Could you please formulate some examples with and without u/y/w?


The endings for change of argument structure are composed of the following elements.

s/d             +/- F             P|AP|A/P

x=>s             w=>+F      a=>P
z=>d             y=>-F      e=>AP
v|0=no chng 0=no chng. o=>A/P
                                     u=no chng.

"v" is used when only the vowel
changes, to provide a consonant.

These form suffixes of the form CV or CSV, where S is w or y.

They are relative to the argument structure of the classifier, so the change in meaning they produce depends on the classifier of the word they are added to.  This is a major change from Latejami, in which the corresponding suffixes are all absolute and do not depend on the classifier for any of their meaning.

An earlier explanation of these suffixes can be found in message #88.

stevo