Reconstruction:Proto-Muskogean/-ali

This Proto-Muskogean entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Possibly from first-person singular element *a-, compare the Southwestern first-person singular hortative *aka (< *a- + *ika).

*-ali (series I marker)

1. the first-person singular actor suffix; I

Martin and Munro (2005) depart from the reconstruction of Haas and of Booker to better account for the Creek form -ay-. Haas' reconstruction relies on a further unexplained *-ka, thus explaining the Creek form as deriving from *-ka-li. According to Martin and Munro there is no evidence for this *-ka in any of the Southern languages and Haas also does not offer an explanation for the loss of *k in Creek.

• *-li (Booker, Haas)

• Creek: -i
• Proto-Muskogean: (Southern) *-li
  • Alabama: -li
  • Choctaw: -li
  • Chickasaw: -li
  • Hitchiti: -li
  • Koasati: -li
  • Mikasuki: -li

• Martin, Jack B., Munro, Pamela (2005) “Proto-Muskogean Morphology”, in Hardy, Heather kay and Scancarelli, Janine, editors, Native Languages of the Southeastern United States, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, pages 299-320