<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2>In a message dated 9/14/2001 4:48:10 PM Mountain Daylight Time, John.Koontz@colorado.edu writes:
<BR>
<BR>
<BR><BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Based on the following, some nouns (in -ii?) form their citation form by
<BR>adding -a?
<BR>
<BR></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BR>That's right; nouns ending in -uu also add -a in the citation form. The generalization seems to be that Crow does not like words that end in a high vowel. The only exceptions that I can think of are vocative forms, e.g., baashi'i 'brother-in-law!', and a few adverbs.
<BR>
<BR>Randy
<BR></FONT></HTML>