mexicah tiahui?

[Michael McCafferty]

Michael:

I meant to add that my viewpoint on the matter of yahui, and grammar in 
general, is that all native-speaker grammars are equally good.


All best,

Michael




Quoting Michael McCafferty <mmccaffe at indiana.edu>:

>
>
> 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.
>>
>>
> \
>
> 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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