double inflection

[ROOD DAVID S]

Pam,
	I don't have any of my reference books here at home as I write
this, but John's mention of the verb 'to say' triggers a vague memory in
my mind to the effect that Lak. does the same thing with that one.  'Say'
is eya, conjugated ephe, ehe for 'I say', 'you say' (the only verb left
that uses those inlflections).  I am pretty sure I've seen it reduplicated
and conjugated on both halves: ephaphe, ehahe.  If you want to use that
"fact" in your paper, however, you must give me a chance to verify it.
	For what it's worth, too, you should note that the 'uN(k) 'we'
prefix doesn't participate in any of this; it's only the older inflections
that have these irregularities.
	David


David S. Rood
Dept. of Linguistics
Univ. of Colorado
295 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309-0295
USA
rood at colorado.edu