Nahuatl Digest, Vol 318, Issue 1

[John Sullivan]

Magnus,
	First of all, do you or anyone on the list have a .pdf of Canger’s book, or know where I can download it?
	Now for my question. If the -oa verber originates as -iwa, why does the preterite forms reduce to -oh?
Best,
John

On Nov 22, 2013, at 14:26, Magnus Pharao Hansen <magnuspharao at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi John,
> 
> As for -oa, Canger's 1980 book "Five Studies of Nahuatl Verbs in -oa" studies the history of this form in detail. What is now /oa/ comes originally from verbs in -iwa, where the iw became o. The use of the -oa as a general verbalizing ending was then created by analogy with the new verbforms, that is why it doesn't "look like a Nahuatl morpheme". 
> 
> best,
> Magnus

>  
> Magnus Pharao Hansen
> PhD. candidate
> Department of Anthropology
> 
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