Munsee and English/Contrastive Grammar

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Locative

Munsee uses a special locative suffix (-ung), which turns a noun into a location and adding meanings such as:

• "to the"
• "at the"
• "in the"
• "on the"

This is different from English, which uses separate prepositional words (e.g. "at" "in" "on").

• (umu) amoxoolung → (eng) in the boat

  (umu) amoxoolung<prn><pers><p1><sg><nom> → (eng) in<prn><pers><p1><sg><nom> the<prn><pers><p3><m><acc> boat<v><tv><fut><p1><sg>