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Agreed, absolutely. I should have said that. The same would be true of the
Siouan forms. That's what makes these so interesting to me. If the morphology
does not have a long enough base to do its thing it can look ahead to inflection
and borrow something.<br>
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Koontz John E wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">What reminds me of the Ibláble case is what happens with a verb like
isso 'to hit':
ihÍsso 'he hits him a lot'
sahÁsso 'he hits me a lot'
Grade formation generally operates on the penultimate vowel of the verb
stem. But with a verb like sa-sso 'he hists me', that penultimate vowel
is an inflectional prefix, so grade formation operates on it. Thus what
seems to me to be the parallel to the reduplication of person-marked ya:
normally these morphological rules want to operate on stems, but if they
are dealing with a short stem they may target an inflectional marker.
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What interests me about this case is that it shows grade formation
operating in some sense, anyway) after (perosnal) inflection. That's like
the way that dative formation operates after (personal) inflection in
Omaha-Ponca. Theorists generally hold that inflection follows derivation.
JEK
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