-uwö

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See also: uwo, UWO, and üwö

Ye'kwana

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Variant orthographies
ALIV -uwö
Brazilian standard -uwä
New Tribes -uwä

Pronunciation

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Some frication of the first /w/ may be observed; Hall records a pronunciation with a postvelar fricative (~ [ɣ]?).

Postposition

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-uwö

  1. marks an agent or dative beneficiary of the action; to, by

Usage notes

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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

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  • 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'