[Lexicog] polysynthetic languages

[Chaz and Helga Mortensen]

So all the while I have been working on a polysynthetic language. Correct me
if I'm wrong.

In the Embera languages in Colombia and Panama we have verb forms like:

tu-    -ta                         -si     -a
chop -punctiliar action -past -declarative

"<Sg.> chopped it."

Now ta- or else its homonym also occurs in expressions for throwing objects
and diving into water. In a polysynthetic language, do verb roots like this
get grammaticalized into derivational morphemes, as in the first example?

-Chaz




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