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All Antarctican verbs use infixation to mark 1st person exclusive objects, whom, what (as a direct object), the imperfective antipassive, and the superordinate voice. However, there is a subset of verbs that use vowel replacement to mark 1st person inclusive objects, 2nd person objects, the reflexive voice, and the perfective antipassive. | All Antarctican verbs use infixation to mark 1st person exclusive objects, whom, what (as a direct object), the imperfective antipassive, and the superordinate voice. However, there is a subset of verbs that use vowel replacement to mark 1st person inclusive objects, 2nd person objects, the reflexive voice, and the perfective antipassive. | ||
These are verbs where either a) the first vowel is short, modally voiced /i/, the second vowel has breathy voice, and there is no nasal intervening (plain nasals, prestopped nasals, and the placeless nasal /ɴ/ all count) or b) the first vowel is short, modally voiced /ʎ/, which is immediately followed by a voiceless obstruent, without /ɴ/ intervening | These are verbs where either a) the first vowel is short, modally voiced /i/, the second vowel has breathy voice, and there is no nasal intervening (plain nasals, prestopped nasals, and the placeless nasal /ɴ/ all count) or b) the first vowel is short, modally voiced /ʎ/, which is immediately followed by a voiceless obstruent, without /ɴ/ intervening or c) the first vowel is short, modally voiced /ʎ/, which is immediately followed by an approximant and then a vowel with breathy voice, without /ɴ/ intervening | ||
The vowel replacements depend on whether the verb begins with a hard or soft consonant, but are regular (and have tense voice) and given in the table below: | The vowel replacements depend on whether the verb begins with a hard or soft consonant, but are regular (and have tense voice) and given in the table below: | ||
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More examples: | |||
kiròemùe /kiʁɜɦmɨɦ/ - to bite, verb focus | |||
kimyiròemùe /kimʲiʁɜɦmɨɦ/ - to bite me / us (not including you), verb focus | |||
káròemùe /kaʔʁɜɦmɨɦ/ - to bite us (including you), verb focus | |||
kóeròemùe /kɜʔʁɜɦmɨɦ/ - to bite you, verb focus | |||
káeròemùe /kɛʔʁɜɦmɨɦ/ - to bite oneself, verb focus | |||
kariròemùe /kaʁiʁɜɦmɨɦ/ - to bite who, verb focus | |||
kabiròemùe /kabiʁɜɦmɨɦ/ - to bite what, verb focus | |||
kúowròemùe /kouʔʁɜɦmɨɦ/ - to bite, verb focus, perfective antipassive | |||
kamiròemùe /kamiʁɜɦmɨɦ/ - to bite, verb focus, imperfective antipassive | |||
shuetinju /çɨtiɴɟu/ - to count, verb focus | shuetinju /çɨtiɴɟu/ - to count, verb focus | ||
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yóetinju /jɜʔtiɴɟu/ - to count you, verb focus | yóetinju /jɜʔtiɴɟu/ - to count you, verb focus | ||
yáetinju /jɛʔtiɴɟu/ - to count oneself, verb focus | |||
shieluetinju /çelɨtiɴɟu/ - to count who, verb focus | shieluetinju /çelɨtiɴɟu/ - to count who, verb focus | ||
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(The /ç/ is lenited to /j/ when the vowel is replaced, since Antarctican does not like words starting with fricatives other than /s/ if the next vowel has tense voice. | (The /ç/ is lenited to /j/ when the vowel is replaced, since Antarctican does not like words starting with fricatives other than /s/ if the next vowel has tense voice. | ||
[[Category:Languages]][[Category:Conlangs]] | [[Category:Languages]][[Category:Conlangs]] | ||