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=== Nominalizer suffixes === | === Nominalizer suffixes === | ||
| − | *-lu | + | Three nominalizer suffixes can be attached to verbs to form nouns. Not all verbs can take three suffixes. |
| + | *-lu is attached to a verb to form the action of that verb | ||
** | ** | ||
| − | *-jjux | + | *-jjux is attached to a verb to mean the quality or extent of that verb |
| − | *-tie | + | ** |
| + | *-tie is is attached to a verb to indicate the manner of that verb | ||
=== Adjectivizer suffixes === | === Adjectivizer suffixes === | ||
Revision as of 19:48, 10 February 2022
Contents
Part of Speech
- Open
- Noun
- lyp<n> ↔ lyp - seed
- Verb
- lyp<v> ↔ lyp - sow
- Adjective
- jjip<adj> ↔ jjip - full
- Noun
- Semi-closed
- Determiner
- Classifier
- ji<Cl> ↔ ji - bar,used to classify one-dimensional entities
- Classifier
- Adverb
- gexyimu<adv> ↔ gexyimu - stupid
- Conjunction
- Determiner
- Closed
- Pronoun
- nga<p1><sg> ↔ nga
- Particle
- da<pfv> ↔ da
- Pronoun
Morphological Analysis
Size prefixes
- The diminutive prefixes i and the augmentative prefix a can be prefixed to a set of adjectival roots generating pairs of antonyms.
- sho<n><pl> ↔ ix sho** -iet (big)
- -a (small)
- ax (small)
mu- prefix 'place, sky, stream'
Nominalizer suffixes
Three nominalizer suffixes can be attached to verbs to form nouns. Not all verbs can take three suffixes.
- -lu is attached to a verb to form the action of that verb
- -jjux is attached to a verb to mean the quality or extent of that verb
- -tie is is attached to a verb to indicate the manner of that verb
Adjectivizer suffixes
- -sa
- -we
Reduplicaiton
- Nouns
- Cl
- Pronouns
- Verbs/Adjectives reduplicate to form alternative question
Color Ideophones
Gender/Age suffixes
- Three gender and one age suffixes attached to animal names: - bat (male), -bu (male), -mop (female) and -sse (young).
