Nahuatl Digest, Vol 318, Issue 1

[John Sullivan]

Michael,
	Yes, but not if the origin of -oa is -iwa. For -oa to go to -oh in the preterite its origina would have to be -ota, with the -ta being either a berber or a valence-adder.
John

On Dec 3, 2013, at 6:22, Michael McCafferty <mmccaffe at indiana.edu> wrote:

> 
> 
> Uh...that's what verbs ending in -oa do.
> 
> 
> Quoting John Sullivan <idiez at me.com>:
> 
>> 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
>>> 
>>> Brown University
>>> 128 Hope St.
>>> Providence, RI 02906
>>> 
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