Cabot Creole: Difference between revisions

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*[u o] are in free variation, but [o] is more common when short and [uː] is more common when long.

*Epenthetic [a] is inserted to break illegal clusters.

*Coda /{i,e,o,a}ɹ/ are realized as /e,ə,a,ə/.

All vowels may be long and/or nasalized. Length and nasalization are also separable features on the left bound of some verb roots and affixes; when following consonants these variably either move to the preceding vowel or causes preceding epenthetic [a] to appear.

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See also [[Cabot Creole#Nouns|Nouns]] for agreement as possessive marking.

====Aspect====

Verbs supplete to mark aspect, or for newer loaned or derived verbs are with suffixes ''-∅/V̀sk/(y)ą'' for imperfective/perfective/punctual aspect respectively.

====Verb affix order====

{| class="wikitable"

! {{gcl|Q}} !! {{gcl|REP|repetitive}} !! {{gcl|COIN}} !! {{gcl|NEG}} !! {{gcl|OPT}} !! {{gcl|CLOC}} {{gcl|TLOC}} !! agreement !! incorporated noun

! {{gcl|Q}} !! {{gcl|REP|repetitive}} !! {{gcl|COIN}} !! {{gcl|NEG}} !! {{gcl|OPT}} !! {{gcl|CLOC}} {{gcl|TLOC}} !! {{gcl|PTV}} !! agreement !! incorporated noun

| stem

! {{gcl|PFV}} {{gcl|PUNC}} !! {{gcl|CAUS}} !! {{gcl|NZ}}

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 *[u o] are in free variation, but [o] is more common when short and [uː] is more common when long.
 *Epenthetic [a] is inserted to break illegal clusters.
+*Coda /{i,e,o,a}ɹ/ are realized as /e,ə,a,ə/.
 All vowels may be long and/or nasalized. Length and nasalization are also separable features on the left bound of some verb roots and affixes; when following consonants these variably either move to the preceding vowel or causes preceding epenthetic [a] to appear.
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 See also [[Cabot Creole#Nouns|Nouns]] for agreement as possessive marking.
+====Aspect====
+Verbs supplete to mark aspect, or for newer loaned or derived verbs are with suffixes ''-∅/V̀sk/(y)ą'' for imperfective/perfective/punctual aspect respectively.
 ====Verb affix order====
 {| class="wikitable"
-! {{gcl|Q}} !! {{gcl|REP|repetitive}} !! {{gcl|COIN}} !! {{gcl|NEG}} !! {{gcl|OPT}} !! {{gcl|CLOC}}<br>{{gcl|TLOC}} !! agreement !! incorporated<br>noun
+! {{gcl|Q}} !! {{gcl|REP|repetitive}} !! {{gcl|COIN}} !! {{gcl|NEG}} !! {{gcl|OPT}} !! {{gcl|CLOC}}<br>{{gcl|TLOC}} !! {{gcl|PTV}} !! agreement !! incorporated<br>noun
 | stem
 ! {{gcl|PFV}}<br>{{gcl|PUNC}} !! {{gcl|CAUS}} !! {{gcl|NZ}}