Cherokee/Inflection Tree
The inflection tree shows the possible inflections for the general Cherokee verb, first branching out at the selection of the stem. There are up to (and typically exactly) five possible stems for each verb, which should be memorized for each verb. More detail on this can be found on other pages. [Note: provide specific link.] The stem options are indicated as the bold headings followed by Roman numeral identifiers in parentheses. Below each stem are listed its subsequent options for inflection.
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Present (I)
[edit | edit source]Present (Continuous)
Completive (II)
[edit | edit source](Remote) Past
- Experienced
- Non-Experienced
Future Imperative
Absolute Future (including Certain Imperative)
Future
Future Perfect
Various Derivational Inflections
Actual/Normal DVB (vvqi) Nominalization (Type CMP) (BMA 459 but doesn't recognize tonic): Resultative Noun or Adjective (tonic)
"Perfect Nominal" (u/judoorange123, BMA 459 but fails to distinguish from actual/normal DVB nominalization) (-vvhi/-vvqi, SH and atonic)
Incompletive (III)
[edit | edit source]Habitual
(Remote) Past Progressive
- Experienced
- Non-Experienced
Absolute Future (including Certain Imperative)
Future Progressive
Agentive Noun (with NOM and SH)
- Subtype (Uchihara 365): General Nominalization (without SH)
Actual/Normal DVB (vvqi) Nominalization (Type INC): Action Noun (SH on vv, tonic)
Immediate (IV)
[edit | edit source]Present Imperative
Immediate Past
Irrealis Immediate Future
Infinitive (V)
[edit | edit source]NOM
- Predicative (bare usage): "for you to drink"
- Obligatory (with superhigh)
- Instrumental Noun (with SH) (including DVN-CAU-NOM (BMA 461))
- Subtype (Uchihara 365): General Nominalization (without SH)
NOM2
- Infinitive (including Potential usage): "your singing"
- Location Noun
DVB?? (which one? see tonicity) ??? does this exist as BMA passingly declared?