mexicah tiahui?

[John Sullivan, Ph.D.]

Michael and listeros,
	Then perhaps someone can recommend a good recently written (within  
the last, say, 50 years) grammar of any variant of Nahuatl written by  
a native speaker.
John

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On Jul 21, 2009, at 1:13 PM, Michael McCafferty wrote:

> 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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