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Academic teaching rationale

### gagiribuhatu *“she keeps coming back agiribuhani well; the female one who keeps coming back agiribuhani well.”* The form **gagiribuhatu** is built upon the root *agiribuha*, “to keep coming back agiribuhani” (The People's Garifuna Dictionary (Cayetano)). To it are joined the attributive prefix *ga-*, which, set before a verb, says the action is done well or skilfully — and before a noun, 'having / with'; then the element *-tu* (3SG.F/AGT), whose force is given by the elder paradigm. Taken whole, the word means precisely “she keeps coming back agiribuhani well; the female one who keeps coming back agiribuhani well” — its gloss states the fully-inflected sense, never the bare meaning of the root. Set against its kin, **nagiribuha** (“I keep coming back agiribuhani”); **bagiribuha** (“you keep coming back agiribuhani”): each shares the same stem yet bends it to a different shade of meaning, which is exactly how Garífuna wins great precision from a single root. Its stem is corroborated in living usage (triangulation count 3), though a sentence-length citation for this exact form still awaits collection. *The construction rests on Haurholm-Larsen 2016 §3.3.4 (-ti/-tu); Quesada 2017 §3 person-indexation. This is a principled composition — a cited root joined to a cited paradigm — a