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multiple verb suffixes

MorphemeAddict ([email protected])

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• Subject: multiple verb suffixes
• Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 21:20:12 EST

now i know that {vIchennISmoH} is grammatically ambiguous, since it means 
both "i need to create it" (apparently the more common interpretation by far) and 
"i cause it to need to take form".
is it true that all cases of multiple verbal suffixes (excluding rovers) have 
this sort of ambiguity, where the meanings compounded by different orderings 
of the suffix meanings are all represented by the same fixed string of 
suffixes?
eg. does {muqIpqa'pu'} mean both "he (had/has/will have) hit me again" and 
"he (had/has/will have) resumed hitting me"?
many of the combinations don't make any sense to me aside from a 
last-to-first interpretation of the suffixes.  eg. what else would {maQuchchoHpa'} mean 
besides "before we became/become happy"?
lay'tel SIvten

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