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rejected by native speakers or presumed to exist on the
basis of other evidence.

Periods separate morphemes within a word, e.g.
uta.xa ‘a/the/my house.' Unsuffixed bound roots (verbs)
are followed by a hyphen, e.g. juta- ‘come.' In citation
form, suffixes which may close a construction are pre-
ceded by a hyphen, e.g. the final suffix -xa. Other
suffixes are preceded and followed by a hyphen, e.g.
the verbal derivational suffix -t'a-. Recurrent sub-
morphemic partials are placed within hyphens and within
Slants, e.g. /-pa-/. A lowered v before a suffix indi-
cates it must be preceded by a vowel; a lowered v after
a suffix indicates it must retain its own final vowel
when followed by another suffix; a lowered c before a
suffix indicates it must be preceded by a consonant; a
lowered c after a suffix indicates it must drop its
final vowel before a following suffix and/or when it
occurs word-finally. For example, in most dialects
the possessive/locational suffix -

na. is preceded by

v-——c
a vowel but drops its own vowel word-finally and before
following suffixes, e.g. uta.n, uta.n.xa ‘in/of the
house.' When a suffix may be preceded by either a vowel
or a consonant the more common (or base) occurrence is

indicated above a tilde (~) and the less common below

the tilde, e.g. = da first person possessive suffix.
Cc
A similar notation after a suffix indicates it may in