mexicah tiahui?

[Michael McCafferty]

Quoting Michael Swanton <mwswanton at yahoo.com>:

>
>
>
>
> Andrews
> states: "There exist dialectal variants for the present indicative VNCs
> with plural-number subjects built on the stem (ya-hui) instead of (hui)?These
> are not, however, considered good usage" (p. 98).
>
>
>
> Almost all
> dialects of Nahuatl use a non-suppletive stem of a shape like yahui in the
> present (Una Canger has written on this). Such a stem also appears in
> colonial
> writings. It is ?classical? Nahuatl that is exceptional and probably
> innovative,
> while the ?modern dialects? may very well turn out to be more conservative.
>
>
>
> I think we
> need to be careful in using classical Nahuatl as the baseline for evaluating
> good or bad usage or grammar in other varieties of Nahuatl that have
> only been
> documented more recently.
>
>
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Michael:

Talk to Andrews; don't talk to me. I don't speak for him. In this case, 
what I tried to do was let you know what I recalled concerning *his* 
point of view from reading his second book on grammar.

:-)

Michael




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