dictionary verb citations

[John F. Schwaller]

From: "Mr. Tezozomoc" <tezozomoc at hotmail.com>
To: NAHUAT-L at LISTS.UMN.EDU
Subject: Re: dictionary verb citations
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 20:59:18 +0000

I was going to blame Antonio de Nebrija, Latin.... and his gramatica
style... but I think that Karttunen .. has a better answer.....

Tlazohcamati...
Tezozomoc






At 03:00 PM 2/15/2005, you wrote:
>----Original Message Follows----
>From: Frances Karttunen <karttu at NANTUCKET.NET>
>Reply-To: Nahua language and culture discussion <NAHUAT-L at LISTS.UMN.EDU>
>To: NAHUAT-L at LISTS.UMN.EDU
>Subject: Re: dictionary verb citations
>Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 14:59:14 -0500
>
>>My questions is, why didn't Molina and his successors use this as the
>>dictionary headword form?
>
>One reason is that one can form the future from the present by regular
>rules, but future forms are ambiguous. Since the final vowel is dropped
>from Class 2 and 3 (b and c) verbs in the future, one can hypothesize
>more than one possible stem for a verb that ends in iz or oz. Leaving
>aside contrastive vowel length for a moment, is temoz from invariant
>temo or from temoa?  Is yoliz form yoli or yolia?
>
>Fran
>