yolic huan yolic

[John Sullivan, Ph.D.]

Listeros,
Esperando que reciban este coreo, porque me han sacado de la lista  
cuatro veces en los últimos seis meses.... Here is my question from  
Modern Huastecan Nahuatl:
1. "yolic", "somebody or something slow",  is a conjugatable agentive  
noun which comes from the class 2 verb "yoli", "to be engendered, to  
live, to be revived". I can say, "niyolic", "I am (a) slow (person)",  
or "tiyoliqueh", "We are slow (people)".
2. However, "yolic" can also be used as an adverb, "slowly", in which  
case it is not conjugated. "Nitequiti yolic", "I work slowly", and  
"Titequitih yolic", "We work slowly".
3. So for purposes of grammatical classification (I know you don't  
like that, Joe), could we say that there are two "yolic's": one a noun  
and one a particle (because it is frozen)?
John

John Sullivan, Ph.D.
Profesor de lengua y cultura nahua
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