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Ye'kwana
Etymology 1
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Prefix
ö-
- Marks a noun as having a second-person possessor.
- Marks a postposition as having a second-person object.
- Marks a transitive verb as having a second-person patient/object when the agent/subject is of third person with verb forms that take series I markers.
- Marks a transitive verb as having a second-person patient/object when the agent/subject is unspecified with verb forms that take series II markers.
- Marks an intransitive verb with patient-like argument as having a second-person argument/subject with verb forms that take series I markers and on all intransitive verbs with verb forms that take series II markers.
- Marks a verb form derived with n- and -dü or -'jüdü as having a second-person agent/subject.
Usage notes
The form taken by this prefix depends on the first syllable of the stem it attaches to:
- ö- if the first syllable begins with a consonant and its vowel is i, ö, or ü.
- öy- if the first syllable begins with a vowel i, ö, or ü. (No possessible nouns fall into this category; those that would have ö ablaut to e.)
- o- if the first syllable begins with a consonant and its vowel is o or u.
- oy- if the first syllable begins with a vowel o or u.
- a- if the first syllable begins with a consonant and its vowel is a or e.
- ay- if the first syllable begins with a vowel a or e.
In the Cunucunuma River dialect, the above forms with -y- have -d- instead.
Inflection
Ye'kwana personal markers
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pronoun
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noun possessor/
series II verb argument
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postposition object
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series I verb argument
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| transitive patient
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intransitive patient-like
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intransitive agent-like
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transitive agent
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| first person
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ewü
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y-, ∅-, ü-, u-1
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w-, wi-
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| first person dual inclusive
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küwü
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k-, kü-, ku-, ki-
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k-, kii-, ki-1
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| second person
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amödö
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ö-, öy-/öd-, o-, oy-/od-, a-, ay-/ad-
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m-, mi-
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| first person dual exclusive
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nña
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y-/d-, ch-, ∅-, i-1
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chö-
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∅-
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n-, ni-
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| third person
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tüwü
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n-, ni-
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| distant past third person
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—
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kün-, kun-, kin-, ken-, küm-, kum-, kim-, kini-
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| coreferential/reflexive
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—
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t-, tü-, tu-, ti-, te-
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—
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| reciprocal
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—
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—
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öö-
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- With following vowel lengthened if in an unreduced open syllable.
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series I verb argument:
transitive agent and transitive patient
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| first person > second person
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mön-, man-, mon-, möm-, möni-
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| first person dual exclusive > second person
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| second person > first person
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k-, kü-, ku-, ki-
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| second person > first person dual exclusive
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| third person > any person X …or… any person X > third person
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see person X in the chart above
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Etymology 2
Pronunciation
Prefix
ö-
- allomorph of öt- (detransitivizing prefix).
References
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “ö-”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon, pages 169–171, 188–189
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 284–287