stress shift

George Lang george.lang at UALBERTA.CA
Fri Nov 8 17:34:35 UTC 2002


I'm on the road and don't have my dictionary to hand, but it seems to me
that in GR CJ, there is yet another of these stress differentiated words.

_hayu_ with stress on first syllable is "lots".  _snass ha'yu_: lots of
rain.

_hayu_ with stress on the second syllable is a kind of progressive -ing
form: _snass hayu'_: it IS raining.

George



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