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In comparison to the transitive pronominal affixes, the affixes for the intransitive verb are much simpler, although the passive forms demonstrate quite a bit of unexpected variability. Most noticeable of the passive forms is the occurrence of lenition, a morphophonemic alternation that occurs nowhere else in the Minhast verb, or nouns for that matter. Diachronic developments explain the source for | In comparison to the transitive pronominal affixes, the affixes for the intransitive verb are much simpler, although the passive forms demonstrate quite a bit of unexpected variability. Most noticeable of the passive forms is the occurrence of lenition, a morphophonemic alternation that occurs nowhere else in the Minhast verb, or nouns for that matter. Moreover, the passive forms show considerable polysemy. Diachronic developments explain the source for these otherwise aberrant features. Based on early Classical Minhast texts, as well as the pre-Modern Stone Speaker dialects, an additional pronominal form has been reconstructed, ''-ya-'', which functioned as an indefinite third person form (c.f. English "one", French "on", Spanish "se", etc). This reconstructed pronominal form merged with the accusative segment of the portmanteau pronominal affixes, triggering lenition of velars and palatalization of dentals. Eventually, the meaning of indefinite "one" was lost and the verb was re-analyzed as a stative verb, leading to the replacement of the Transitivizer ''-u'' with the Detransitivizer ''-an''. Soon after these developments, the Inchoative marker ''-saxt-'' surfaced, most likely due to analogy with stative verbs. The final result is a passive voice where the Inchoative is applied in semantically transitive verbs and licenses the passive pronominal affixes. | ||
Their forms are listed below in Table X: | |||
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! style="text-align:left"| 3rd Neuter Animate Sg. | ! style="text-align:left"| 3rd Neuter Animate Sg. | ||
| -Ø-, -s- | | -Ø-, -s- | ||
| | | -šš- | ||
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! style="text-align:left"| 3rd Neuter Inanimate Sg. | ! style="text-align:left"| 3rd Neuter Inanimate Sg. | ||