An exploration of proto-kiranti verbal morphology

Verbs in Kiranti languages are not segmentable in the same straightforward way as in agglutinating languages such as Turkish. The presence of fused or portemanteau morphemes and allomorphy, often conditioned by co-occurrence with other morphemes in the same affixal string and often involving zero allomorphs, renders a thorough morphemic analysis of the verb in any given language a desideratum in the study of the affixal morphology of the proto-language. On the basis of a morphemic analysis of the verbal affixes of five Kiranti languages, I shall explore the flectional morphology of Proto-Kiranti.