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A characteristic feature of Sowaár verbs is stem ablaut in various TAM and voice forms, involving stem vowel changes, consonant gradation, reduplication, and infixes. These paradigms tend to be quite complex. Most Sowaár lects have a fixed (large) number of regular ablaut classes. The number of ablaut paradigms, and which verb stems fall into which ablaut classes, depends on the lect. High Sowaár has 57 classes. | A characteristic feature of Sowaár verbs is stem ablaut in various TAM and voice forms, involving stem vowel changes, consonant gradation, reduplication, and infixes. These paradigms tend to be quite complex. Most Sowaár lects have a fixed (large) number of regular ablaut classes. The number of ablaut paradigms, and which verb stems fall into which ablaut classes, depends on the lect. High Sowaár has 57 classes. | ||
High Sowaár has two dimensions in which the basic stem ablauts: | |||
*Tenses: present, past, future, imperative, optative (Classical) | *Tenses: present, past, future, imperative, optative (Classical) | ||
*Aspects: continuative, inceptive, conclusive, cessative, resumptive, iterative | *Aspects: continuative, inceptive, conclusive, cessative, resumptive, iterative | ||
**-hw- or -ho- = continuative | **-hw- or -ho- = continuative | ||
Example: | Example: | ||
*I love you = ''lihosjhógy'' | *I love you = ''lihosjhógy'' | ||