Proto-Ash: Difference between revisions

Serial verb constructions with reduplication of {{ash|*qa:}} seem to have developed in transitive phrases. The main verb phrase was preceded by the auxiliary phrase, the latter eventually becoming the various agency-marking prefixes in modern Ash. The auxiliary held the pronominal morphology in the form of suffixes or clitics, which appears to date back to an earlier stage of the language, as the trend going into modern Ash was to put the verb at the end.

The exact forms of these suffixes are very tentative as they would become very reduced. They might have had any vowel, or none at all. The suffix {{ash|*-ta}} is probably also related to modern Ash's speaker's involvement marker {{ash|-s}} and {{ash|*-wa/-ya}} are quite clearly the same demonstratives as elsewhere.