Reconstruction:Proto-Muskogean/li

See also: Reconstruction:Proto-Muskogean/-li
This Proto-Muskogean entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Muskogean

Verb

*li[1]

  1. (auxiliary) verb used to form active periphrastic constructions

Reconstruction notes

The auxiliary verb does not survive as a distinct verb in any of the descendant languages (instead it survives as a suffix in the descendant languages), but both Haas (1977) and Booker (1980) agree that at some point in Proto-Muskogean history it must have been a separate auxiliary instead of a suffix.[1][2]

Alternative reconstructions

  • *-li[3] (see there for further descendants)

See also

  • *ka (mediopassive auxiliary)
  • *či (causative auxiliary)

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Booker, Karen (1980) Comparative Muskogean: aspects of Proto-Muskogean verb morphology (Thesis), University of Kansas
  2. ^ Haas, Mary R. (1977) “From Auxiliary Verb Phrase to Inflectional Suffix”, in Li, Charles N., editors, Mechanism of Syntactic Change, Austin: University of Texas Press, →ISBN, pages 525-537
  3. ^ Martin, Jack B., Munro, Pamela (2005) “Proto-Muskogean Morphology”, in Hardy, Heather kay and Scancarelli, Janine, editors, Native Languages of the Southeastern United States, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, pages 299-320
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