Nuosu/Grammar

Part of Speech

1. Open
   • Noun, verb, adjective
2. Semi-closed
   • Determiner, adverb, conjunction
3. Closed
   • Pronoun, particle, auxiliary, complementizer

Morphological Analysis

1. Size prefixes

The diminutive prefixes i and the augmentative prefix a can be pre fixed to a set of adjectival roots generating pairs of antonyms.

• -ix (big)
• -iet (big)
• -a (small)
• ax (small)

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