-emje

Ye'kwana Etymology 1 Alternative forms mch -mje allomorph Pronunciation Suffix mch suffix forms adverbs from verbs with a resulting meaning of ‘ready to X’, ‘capable of X’ for intransitive verbs and ‘ready to be X-ed’, ‘capable of being X-ed’ for transitive verbs; must be accompanied by the prefix mch t- Usage notes It is unclear if mch t- -emje is best analyzed as an adverbializing circumfix or as a separate unspecified person prefix mch t- and adverbializing suffix mch -emje. It is likely that this suffix has further allomorphs similar to those of the adverbializer mch -e; the corpus collected by Cáceres (2011) did not contain enough attestations to establish them. In any case, it is known that the form mch -emje is used after stems ending in mch ü, and mch -mje after stems ending in mch a or mch ö. Etymology 2 Alternative forms mch -mje i- -emje i- -mje allomorphs Pronunciation Suffix mch suffix forms adverbs from verbs with a resulting meaning of ‘recently X-ed’ Usage notes When this suffix is attached to intransitive verb stems, they do not bear person markers, nor is this suffix used with mch t- or the prefixes mch w- and mch n-. Consonant-initial stems experience palatalization of their initial consonants, and, if a stem begins with two consonants, this suffix takes the form of a circumfix mch i- -'da instead of its ordinary shape. However, when this suffix derives an adverb from a transitive verb, it (possibly) carries a person marker referring to the object of the verb; reports are conflicting.mch Cáceres says it does on pp. 199–200, but this contradicts her earlier statement on p. 155 that this suffix is never used with person markers. It is likely that this suffix has further allomorphs similar to those of the adverbializer mch -e; the corpus collected by Cáceres (2011) did not contain enough attestations to establish them. In any case, it is known that the form mch -emje is used after stems ending in mch ü, and mch -mje after stems ending in mch a or mch ö. References 154–155, 199–200, 438 -emje