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SASAKI Mitsuya hawatari21centuries at gmail.com
Tue Nov 1 11:55:16 UTC 2011


John,

Thanks for the comment and the data.
Now the only remaining problem with this construal is that we have to 
assume two "ihcequi"'s, intransitive and transitive, like "ahci(vt/vi)".
Que chida academia!

Mitsuya SASAKI
The Department of Linguistics, the University of Tokyo
ll116003 at mail.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp

(2011/11/01 11:50), John Sullivan wrote:
> Ok Mitsuya and demás listeros,
> 	Half of the temporarily constituted and soon to be dissolved Nahuatl morphology academy here at Notre Dame thinks that perhaps:
> 1. te-, “non-specific human object” + ihcequi (intransitive), “corn toasts or is toasted” + -ia (applicative) + -ya (imperfect tense suffix) = teihcequiaya, “corn was toasted for people”
> 2. qui, “3rd person singular specific object” + ihcequi (transitive), “to toast something” + ya, (imperfect tense suffix) = quihcequiya, “she was toasting it”
> and the other half is reluctant to make a commitment to a firm decision on the matter.
> John
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