122
Serial
Analysis
K. M. A. BARNETT
SOAS
14 AEM S V CEARNG-MRH (XO0)
ZROU
15 A FJO U ZROU-DHAK
16 AJFO U MRH-ZROU-DHAK
Approximate English equivalent
please do not.
yes! I will (can) do it, it will (can) be done.
no! I will not (cannot) do it, you may not do it, it will (can, may) not be done.
17 AF JO U ZROU-MRH-ZROU-DHAK will (can) you do it? May I do it? Will (can, may) it be done?
18 A FJQ V MREI ZROU-DHAK-DOO one has not been (but perhaps will be) able to do it.
19 A FJQ V ZROU-DHAK-DOO-MREI has one been able (will one be able) to do it?
20 A FJR Ụ ZROU-GARN what is being done prevents something else from being done (e.g. "he is busy doing...")
+
21 A FJRU ZROU-MRH-ZROU-GARN is something being done
22 A FJR V ZROU-DHAK-DOO
23 AFJR V ZROU-MRH-ZROU·
24 A FJ SU
25 A FLQ V
26 A FM Q V
27 AFM RV
DHAK-DO0
ZRAU-ZROU
MREI-ZROU-ZRY
MAE-ZROU-ZRY
MAE-ZROU
28 AGJ PU MREI-ZROU
29 BEJO U ZROU-MRH-DOO
30 BEJ P U ZROU-DOO
31 BEJ P U
ZROU-MRH-ZROU-DOO
32 BEM SU JIU-ZROU
33 BEM SU MRH-SAE-ZROU
which prevents, etc.?
I (you, he, one) can do (the negative is ambiguous, see serial 29).
can I (you, he, one) do?
about to do or be done.
defer doing, do later but not now.
don't do now.
don't do it! Stop doing it!
has not (been) done but may do (be done).
action did not, or cannot, achieve its result (used as negative both to 22 and 30).
action achieved its result.
did action achieve its result?
I intend (if you, etc., intend) to do, this must be done.
I (you) need not do, this need not be done (contrast serial 39).