double inflection

[Pamela Munro]

Agreed, absolutely. I should have said that. The same would be true of
the Siouan forms. That's what makes these so interesting to me. If the
morphology does not have a long enough base to do its thing it can look
ahead to inflection and borrow something.

Pam

Koontz John E wrote:

>On Sun, 3 Aug 2003, Pamela Munro wrote:
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>>What reminds me of the Ibláble case is what happens with a verb like
>>isso 'to hit':
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>>ihÍsso 'he hits him a lot'
>>sahÁsso 'he hits me a lot'
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>>Grade formation generally operates on the penultimate vowel of the verb
>>stem. But with a verb like sa-sso 'he hists me', that penultimate vowel
>>is an inflectional prefix, so grade formation operates on it. Thus what
>>seems to me to be the parallel to the reduplication of person-marked ya:
>>normally these morphological rules want to operate on stems, but if they
>>are dealing with a short stem they may target an inflectional marker.
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>What interests me about this case is that it shows grade formation
>operating in some sense, anyway) after (perosnal) inflection.  That's like
>the way that dative formation operates after (personal) inflection in
>Omaha-Ponca.  Theorists generally hold that inflection follows derivation.
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