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Stems and Suffixes for Verbs

Transitive verbs:

-i CVC transitive roots with all vowels except [e]

-e CVC transitive roots with [e]

-V non-CVC transitive roots

 

Intransitive verbs:

-V1y intransitive roots (ex. a-lok’-oy ‘he comes out’)

-V intransitive roots

 

Positionals:

-Vr positional

 

(The above stem suffixes are usually removed when using derivational suffixes below.)

 

Derivational verb suffixes

…-j-…-a passive with CVC roots (ex. a-ch’a-j-m-a ‘they are taken’)

-pa middle passive with CVC roots

-tz’a middle passive with CVC roots

-k’a middle passive with CVC roots

-na passive with non-CVC and derived verbs

-ma antipassive

-on antipassive

-o antipassive (relic; with a few verbs)

-ar/-‘r/-er nominalizer

-(y)an antipassive verb

-(y)aj nominalized antipassive verb

-b’ir past participle with transitive roots

-em past participle with intransitive roots

-ran inchoative

-wan intransitivizer with positional roots

-b’a/-b’u transitivizer with positional roots

-es/-s/-se causative

-ru/-ru iterative

General phonological rule when two vowels occur together: V1V2 è V2’