Example 40-66

Teru nu pa kata.
Teru
Teru
nu
neg
pa
fut
kata.
sing
Teru will not sing.
Comment:
1 affirmative: katan [PRS.PROG]; negative: nu tɛ katan 2 affirmative: tə kata [PRS.HAB]; negative: nu tɛ kata ( replaces ) 3 affirmative: tɛd kata [PRS.PROX.FUT]; negative: nu tɛ kata (tɛd reduces to ) 4 affirmative: katad [PRS.PRF]; negative: nu tɛ katad ( is inserted) 5 affirmative: kata! [IMP]; negative: nu kata! 6 affirmative: kato [PST]; negative: nu kato 7 affirmative: ti kata [PST.HAB]; negative: nu ti kata 8 affirmative: ti katan [PST.PROG]; negative: nu ti katan 9 affirmative: ti katad [PST.PFV]; nu ti katad 10 affirmative: tid kat [PST.PROX.FUT]; negative: nu ti katad (tid reduces to ti) 11 affirmative: lə kat [FUT]; negative: nu pa(d) kata (pad replaces , and is often reduced to pa) 12 affirmative: ter kat [COND]; ngative: nu pri kata (pri replaces ter) 13 affirmative: ay/ater kata [COND]; negative: nu ater katad 14 affirmative: maši kata [DEONTIC(i.e. 'should/must')]; negative: maši nu kata Regarding 2: it is more likely that is the reduced form and that is the older form. Regarding 4: it is probable that katad was at one point katad and that disappeared as part of a general tendency whereby those preposed markers in Korlai that redundantly marked a function disappeared (cf. Clements 1990).
Type:
constructed by linguist
Source:
Own knowledge