Iha

Language

Iha

Family

Trans-New Guinea

Ethnologue

ihp

ISO

ihp

glottolog_id

ihaa1241

Verbs transitive table

gloss	layer	1 sg > 3 sg fut	1 sg > 3 pl fut	1 sg > 3 sg prs	1 sg > 3 pl prs	1 sg > 3 sg t_pst	1 sg > 3 pl t_pst	1 sg > 3 sg y_pst	1 sg > 3 pl y_pst	1 sg > 3 sg rem_pst	1 sg > 3 pl rem_pst
bite	lexeme					wrignen	wrigten	wrigmbon	wrigmbon
bite	suffix 1	ny	te	ny	te	ny	te	zero	zero	zero	zero
bite	suffix 2	anggen	anggen	wen	wen	en	en	mbon	mbon	nonggon	nonggon
hear	lexeme	kmonanggen	kmonanggen	kmonen	kmonen	kmonen	kmonen	kmonmbon	kmonmbon	kmonnonggon	kmonnonggon
hear	suffix 1	zero	zero	zero	zero	zero	zero	zero	zero	zero	zero
hear	suffix 2	anggen	anggen	wen	wen	en	en	mbon	mbon	nonggon	nonggon
hit	lexeme	qpagtanggen	qpagtanggen	qpagtewen	qpagtewen	qpagten	qpagten	qpagmbon	qpagmbon	qpagnonggon	qpagnonggon
hit	suffix 1	te	te	te	te	te	te	zero	zero	zero	zero
hit	suffix 2	anggen	anggen	wen	wen	en	en	mbon	mbon	nonggon	nonggon
split wood	lexeme	qpryéhnyanggen	qpryéhnyanggen	qpryéhnewen	qpryéhnewen	qpryéhnen	qpryéhnen	qpryéhmbon	qpryéhmbon	qpryéhnonggon	qpryéhnonggon
split wood	suffix 1	ny	ny	ny	ny	ny	ny	zero	zero	zero	zero
split wood	suffix 2	anggen	anggen	wen	wen	en	en	mbon	mbon	nonggon	nonggon
throw	lexeme
throw	suffix 1	ny	zero	ny	zero	ny	zero	zero	zero	zero	zero
throw	suffix 2	anggen	anggen	wen	wen	en	en	mbon	mbon	nonggon	nonggon

Iha notes

• Verbs inflect for person-number of both agent/subject and patient/object. As this is quite regular it not represented in the database entry, which instead focuses on inflection class.
• The suffixes whose allomorphy defines the inflection classes are represented underlyingly by Donohue as -ny and -te, subject to some morphophonological adjustments. They are lacking in some tenses. It appears to have been conditioned, at least diachronically, by the phonology of the following tense marker (initial nasal consonant?); note that in some dialects they are still present -- compare purú-mbon 'I flew yesterday', nórowg-mbon 'I swam yesterday' with Southeastern Iha purú-ny-ombon, nórowg-t-ombon (Donohue forthcoming, fn 12).
• The inflection classes are found with both transitive and intransitive verbs. However, the inflection class alternation which is sensitive to the number of the patient/object (in 'bite' and 'throw') is found only with transitives. The pattern found with 'bite' is common, that with 'throw' is rare.

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References

Dononhue, Mark. Forthcoming. Verbal inflection in Iha: a multiplicity of alignments. In Matthew Baerman(ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Inflection. Oxford: OUP.