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English: Then I kept a fire of birch and cottonwood under it. |
| Conj. | Subject | Conj. | Subject | Post-position | Post-position | Prefix Positions | Stem | |||||
| 18. Postposition |
8. Gender |
4. Mode |
2. Subject Pronoun |
1. Classifier |
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| Morphemes | Yethdi | chuq'eya | ch'u | esni | eł | be + t'uh | i | d | ghe+i | esh | Ø | q'en |
| gh-perfective | ||||||||||||
| Sound Changes | cottonwood and birch are the objects of the postposition | gh | e | changes to ł classifier, making the action causative jt: 127 |
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| e and i drop to avoid double vowels | sh drops in front of ł | |||||||||||
| English | Then | birch | and | cottonwood | with | him/her + under | put in a stove | chips of wood | perfect mode | I | cause to happen |
burn Aspect: neuter Mode: perfect |
| Verb Theme | (identifier) d + Ø classifier + q'en (root) |
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| Meaning | be burning |
| Theme Class | Stative |
| Type | Intransitive |
| Stem Set: Root = q'en, q'un; Tag = burn | ||||
| Mode | ||||
| Aspect | Imperfect | Perfect | Future | Optative |
| Momentanous | q'ush | q'un | q'eł | q'ish |
| Neuter | q'en | q'en | q'uh | q'un |
| Continuative | q'en | q'un | q'en | q'en |
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