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).

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