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<p>Posted by <b><!--poster-->Joey</b>
on <!--date-->12:45 10/27/01
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I'm puzzled by one of the examples in the Kebreni grammar. In the explanation of the volitional inflection, it says:
<p>Pucso mabu. I kicked the dog (perhaps accidentally).
<br>Obucse mabu. I kicked the dog (on purpose).
<p>But by my understanding, "pucso" would inflect by adding an initial e and voicing the first consonant (ebucso), and then switching the first two vowels (ubecso), ending up with "Ubecso mabu" for "I kicked the dog on purpose." Where am I getting lost?
<p>Joey
<hr><i>Mark responds:
<p>You're taking <b>pucso</b> as the infinitive, which it's not: it's a perfective. (The telltale is that it doesn't end in -u.)
<p>The verb is <b>pocsu</b>. So the volitional is formed by adding an e (<b>epocsu</b>), voicing the consonant (<b>ebocsu</b>), and switching the first two vowels (<b>obecsu</b>).
<p>But what we have so far is an imperfective form. We need another step
to form the perfective we switch the last two vowels: <b>obucse</b>.
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