<div>This is interesting--no distinction between 3rd person singular and 1st person plural?</div> <div> </div> <div>Dave<BR><BR><B><I>BARudes@aol.com</I></B> wrote:</div> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT lang=0 face=Arial size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10">Bob,<BR><BR>Catawba /-hu:-/ is a mutating verb where the initial consonant changes to indicate subject :<BR><BR>-hu :- 'come'<BR>c'u:re: 'I come'<BR>y'u:re: 'you (sg.) come'<BR>h'u:re: 'he, she, it comes'<BR>h'u:re: 'we come'<BR>w'u:re: 'you (pl.) come'<BR>ir'u:re: 'they come'<BR><BR>Of the other mutating verbs, the conjugation of /-hu:-/ is most like the conjugation of the verb /-ri:-/ 'be located' (Saraw dialect) (/-re:-/ in the Esaw dialect) :<BR><BR>-ri:- 'be located'<BR>c'i:re: 'I am located'<BR>y'i:ire: 'you (sg.) are located'<BR>d'i:re: 'he, she, it is located'<BR>h'i:re: 'we are located'<BR>w'i:re: 'you
(pl.) are located'<BR>ir'i:re: 'they are located'<BR><BR>It has generally been assumed that the third person singular forms of mutating verbs take a zero allomorph of the third person. For example, /-ri:-/ 'be located' + /-re:/ 'independent mode' becomes /d'i:re:/ with the regular, automatic shift of /r/ to /d/ in initial position before an oral vowel. Based on this assumption, the bare stem of the verb 'come' would be /-hu:-/. It is, however, possible that the initial /h/ here is an atypical manifestation of the third person singular subject prefix /h(i)-/ on a mutating verb. If so, then the original form of the verb would have been *-u:-. There is, however, no direct evidence for such a proto-form; at the same time, there are no (other) mutating verbs that begin with a vowel. There are also no other mutating verbs that have root-initial /h/ and an initial /h/ in the third person form. So, an analogical explanation is a possibility for the initial /h/ of Catawba /-hu:-/
'come'.<BR><BR>Blair<BR></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></FONT><p>
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