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Junyé:na glay (ji-ula-nai-na kilái) | Junyé:na glay (ji-ula-nai-na kilái) | ||
Ji-na ha=korzi | |||
Various suffixes, such as the past tense suffix ''-hai'' triggers mutation in many nouns, although the type of mutation that surfaces depends on neighbouring or even long-distance morphemes (e.g. when the allomorph ''hai'' co-occurs as a particle in sentence-final position), which part of a constituent phrase the noun occupies (i.e. head or non-head), among others. In the first example, ''korzi'' does not undergo mutation after the genitive ''-na'', whereas ''kilái'' undergoes voiced fortition. | Various suffixes, such as the past tense suffix ''-hai'' triggers mutation in many nouns, although the type of mutation that surfaces depends on neighbouring or even long-distance morphemes (e.g. when the allomorph ''hai'' co-occurs as a particle in sentence-final position), which part of a constituent phrase the noun occupies (i.e. head or non-head), among others. In the first example, ''korzi'' does not undergo mutation after the genitive ''-na'', whereas ''kilái'' undergoes voiced fortition. | ||
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| Postverbal Emphatic | | Postverbal Emphatic | ||
| Lenition | | Lenition | ||
| '' | | ''Jinagorzi havikta bijiɬ'' "My dog fled (the deer's) antlers." | ||
* Lenition by ''-hen'', when preceded by a verb of motion, encodes motion towards semantic goal NPs, although exceptions exist | * Lenition by ''-hen'', when preceded by a verb of motion, encodes motion towards semantic goal NPs, although exceptions exist | ||
| Postverbal | | Postverbal | ||