D s c h a n g    p a r a d i g m s

There are 9 tenses, 3 future, 4 past, and 2 present. There are 5 moods.
The materials were elicited and transcribed by Steven Bird.

future past present
affirmative One Four Five One Two Three Five Progressive Simple
conditional One Four Five One Two Three Five Progressive Simple
focus One Four Five One Two Three Five Progressive Simple
interrogative One Four Five One Two Three Five Progressive Simple
negative One Four Five One Two Three Five Progressive Simple

Each paradigm is laid out as a table with 4 columns and 8 rows,
an approach which was inspired by the work of Hyman (1985).
In the first two columns, the subject noun is varied while the
object noun is fixed. In the final two columns, the object noun
is varied and the subject noun is fixed. Words used in the paradigms
are listed in the following table.

List of Vocabulary Used in Paradigms
NOUNS:
Tone & NumberSubjects:Objects:
Wordgloss Wordgloss
 H-tone singular   ndON  lazy man  menzwi  woman 
 H-tone plural  melON  lazy men  meNkUOG0  children 
 HL-tone singular  mbuN  beggar  membhU  dog 
 HL-tone plural  mepuN  beggars  metsON  quail 
 LH-tone singular  fok  co-wife  na  animal 
 LH-tone plural  mefok  co-wives  kaN  squirrel 
 L-tone singular  efO  chief  mO  infant 
 L-tone plural  mefO  chiefs  seN  bird 

VERBS:
H-toneL-tone
  kapte    to cover     kemte     to bury  

PARTICLES:
 a  concord vowel  luu  future (after tomorrow) 
 fu  remote future  N  infinitival prefix 
 kaa  negative  o or O  concord vowel 
 ke  yesterday past  se  progressive 
 lelaG0  remote past  te  negative 

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