argument structure k'u etc.

[Rankin, Robert L]

I've never seen anything like that in the languages I've looked at.  Bob

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Subject: RE: argument structure k'u etc.


On Mon, 4 Apr 2005, Jan F. Ullrich wrote:
> > (1)        w-o-'uN-k'u-pi    'they fed us (gave us things)'
>
> I have been under the assumtion that wo in these compounds is a
> contraction of wo'yute 'food' (wo'yute k?u' -> wo'k?u).

Is there a precedent for such extreme reductions?