-uwö
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Ye'kwana
[edit]| ALIV | -uwö |
|---|---|
| Brazilian standard | -uwä |
| New Tribes | -uwä |
Pronunciation
[edit]Some frication of the first /w/ may be observed; Hall records a pronunciation with a postvelar fricative (~ [ɣ]?).
Postposition
[edit]-uwö
- marks an agent or dative beneficiary of the action; to, by
Usage notes
[edit]The first u of this postposition is treated as a consonant wherever possible, forming the coda of the syllable of a preceding vowel and selecting for the preconsonantal rather than the prevocalic forms of personal prefixes: thus öuwö (“to you”) rather than oyuwö.
References
[edit]- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “uwö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 278, 296: “There is also a voiced post-velar fricative of which I have only one example: [öǥwö] 'to you'; and the corresponding, [cöǥwö] 'to him'. […] wö 'to, by'”