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--- In saweli@yahoogroups.com, MorphemeAddict <lytlesw@...> wrote: > > The imperative ending up to now has been "-x". After examining all the > sentences again in the Latejami/Saweli lessons, I realized that this suffix > hides the information that is normally contained in the verb ending (p/b/m), > namely the number of arguments and dynamicity of the root verb. I don't want > to lose all that information, especially the number of arguments. As a > result, I have changed the imperative ending to three distinct endings: "-x" > (for verbs that otherwise take '-p'), "-q" (for verbs that otherwise take > '-b'), and "-h" (for verbs that otherwise take '-m', which currently all > happen to have classifier "ta-"). > The dynamicity of the root verb is still lost, but that isn't as important > as the number of arguments. > > stevo > The x/q also replace the f/v dynamic endings, which were left out of the original message. stevo