Common use of Morphology Clause in Contracts

Morphology. Yhe main question to be answered in chapter 2 was whether the subjunctive is a second present formed from the preterite stem. After an introduction (2.1, p 21) and a short description of the verb in general (2.2, p 26), the concept of a stem pattern was discussed in 2.5 (p 59): a Yocharian verb consists of five basic stems, i.e. present, subjunctive, preterite, preterite participle and imperative. Mostly, the present stem is marked with an additional suffix compared to the non-present stems. In addition to the important distinction between monosyllabic roots ending in a consonant (“Nicht-A-Wurzeln”, Hackstein 1995: 16-57) and disyllabic roots ending in -a (“A-Wurzeln”, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇.▇.), verbal roots must be divided into gradable roots with basic a-vocalism, “a|x-roots”, and non-gradable roots with basic a-vocalism, “a|x-roots” (2.4, p 44). Yhese two distinctions yield the four root types a|Ø and a|Ø (“Nicht-A-Wurzeln”), and a|a and a|a (“A-Wurzeln”). In 2.5 (p 47), the morphological distinctions of the verb were investigated, while 2.6 (Yocharian A, p 94) and 2.7 (Yocharian B, p 117) contain an inventory of verbal stem patterns based on the stem suffixes. With the important distinction of present- subjunctives, i.e. presents that can also be used as subjunctives, it turned out that presents are often distinguished by a separate suffix, whereas subjunctives are formed from the same stem as the preterite. Yhe differences between the subjunctive and the preterite stems are confined to inflexional peculiarities, in particular slightly different gradation and palatalisation patterns, and an accent contrast in Yocharian B. Sections 2.8 and 2.9 were devoted to the derivation of the imperative (2.8, p 157) and the preterite participle (2.9, p 146) from the subjunctive and preterite stems, and the chapter is concluded with a small summary in 2.1o (p 152).