Akachenti Verbs

Verb Classes

Iteration 1

Potential verb classes:

1. Monovalent (1 argument)
   1. Intransitive, e.g. "I eat"
   2. Indirect, e.g. "I (have) want"
   3. Stative/Adjectival, e.g. "She is beautiful"
2. Divalent (2 arguments)
   1. Transitive, e.g. "I eat food"
3. Trivalent (3 arguments)
   1. Causative, e.g. "I want (to eat)"
   2. Ditransitive Recipient, e.g. "I give them that"
   3. Ditransitive Benefactive/Comitative, e.g. "She is beautiful to me"

Iteration 2

1. Active Verb
   1. bo, to do
   2. agata, to meet
2. Stative Verb
   1. da, to want

Verb Stems

Iteration 1

1. Realis
   1. baga:
   2. agata
2. Irrealis
   1. baga:sha
   2. agatanka
3. Imperative

The Verbal Template

Slots

1 (req.)	2 (opt.)	3 (opt.)	4 (usu req.)	5 (opt.)	6 (req.)	7 (opt.)	8 (opt.)	9 (usu req.)
question particle topic	light verb auxiliary verb modal/numeral prefix	negation of verb	recipient/patient/agent (if separate from topic)	incorporated noun/adj./verb	verb stem	recipient/patient/agent (in trivalent expressions)	verb suffix	recipient/patient/agent (if separate from topic)

Tense-Aspect-Mood

Simple Present

Simple present is an interesting beast, as both the present continuative/perfect and the present persistent can be used as a simple present. They both mean something that is currently now true, and thus fall under a factual/indicative usage. The difficulty is that the first only refers to things that predate "now" and the latter only refers to things started now. Nevertheless, while the persistent does imply strongly that the action or state is expected to continue, it can be used in cases where the continuation is irrelevant or unknown, so the present continuative is more likely to be used as a simple present, but present persistent is more like a simple present.

Verb Stem Paradigms

Verb Stem Paradigm I

TAM	verb stem	description
present continuative, present perfect, simple past, gnomic	unmarked root	I do that, I still do that; I've done that, I did that (and haven't undone it)
present persistent, present inchoative	root + sh(V)	I do (now), I'm doing that; I do (and will continue to do)
past discontinuous	vi + root	I did that (but now don't); I did that (and have undone it)
subjunctive, future indicative, narrative	vi + root + sh(V)	I may do that; I'll do that