Nuosu/Grammar

Part of Speech

1. Open

• Noun, verb, adjective

1. Semi-closed

• Determiner, adverb, conjunction

1. Closed

• Pronoun, particle, auxiliary, complementizer

Morphological Analysis

1. Size prefixes

The diminutive pre fi xes i - and the augmentative pre fi x a - can be pre fi xed to a set of adjectival roots generating pairs of antonyms.

2. mu- prefix 'place, sky, stream'

3. Nominalizer suffixes

• -lu (action)
• -jjux (quality or extent)
• -tie (manner)

4. Adjectivizer suffixes

• -sa
• -we

5.Reduplicaiton

• Nouns
• Cl
• Pronouns
• Verbs/Adjectives reduplicate to form alternative question

6.Color Ideophones