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General

Morphemic form: V{(m)mata}
New orthography: +mata, -mmata
Old orthography: -mata, -ngmata
Sources: [CR88], [CWSL51], [SB03], [FAJN19]
Combinations: View list
Left sandhi: Default

Description and behaviour

Form and usage:

This is the intransitive causative ending for 3pl Subject, denoting 'when/because they Vb'ed'.

Here in the 3rd person, the mood marker is {(m)m}, and the 3pl person marker is {atə}, where the /ə/ has taken the sound [a]. Note that this is a dependent mood, which uses the ergative person markers, cf. N{-ata}.


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