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Page 344
... mayêw shows clear evidence of having a verbal origin , as we saw above , the stem no longer has verbal status . Evidence to this effect comes from the fact that mayêw has lost practically all ability to inflect . First , mayêw does not ...
... mayêw shows clear evidence of having a verbal origin , as we saw above , the stem no longer has verbal status . Evidence to this effect comes from the fact that mayêw has lost practically all ability to inflect . First , mayêw does not ...
Page 345
... mayêw was historically the agreement suffix -w employed to mark a 0 or 3rd person subject . However they also contradict a verbal treatment of mayêw as it occurs in present - day Cree . If mayêw were a regular intransitive verb stem of ...
... mayêw was historically the agreement suffix -w employed to mark a 0 or 3rd person subject . However they also contradict a verbal treatment of mayêw as it occurs in present - day Cree . If mayêw were a regular intransitive verb stem of ...
Page 349
... mayêw as an auxiliary or copular verb is contradicted by the morpho- logical facts discussed above . If mayêw had verbal status we should expect it to be able to occur with regular verbal inflection and this is clearly not the case ...
... mayêw as an auxiliary or copular verb is contradicted by the morpho- logical facts discussed above . If mayêw had verbal status we should expect it to be able to occur with regular verbal inflection and this is clearly not the case ...
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