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General

Morphemic form: V{(v)vat}
New orthography: -ppat, +pat
Old orthography: '-pat, -pat
Sources: [CR88], [CWSL51], [SB03], [FAJN19]
Combinations: View list
Left sandhi: Default

Description and behaviour

Form and usage:

This is the intransitive interrogative 3pl ending, denoting 'do they Vb?'. The mood marker here is {va}, and the person marker is the 3pl marker {'-t}. This person marker appears to be similar to the absolutive plural marker on nominal weak q-stems, i.e. N{t}, and the single /v/ therefore appears to geminate to /vv/, which become [pp] in all cases where there is no preceding stem-final consonant to attach to, which would suppress gemination. To encode this behaviour, we therefore write this ending with an initial, epenthetic (v).


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