Re: CHAT: Telek nominalization

Marcus Smith sikayal:

> Hey all,
> [sniperoo]
>
> Subject-Oriented: -Vn
> Object-Oriented: -Vm
This is the *exact* same system that Yivríndil uses!  Of course, all
Yivríndil roots are nouns, but it still works out the same.

aga = curse
agan = one who curses
agam = accursed one

> Oblique-Oriented: -atap
There is no corresponding ending for this in Yivríndil because Yivríndil
doesn't have a separate oblique case or verbs with oblique arguments.

> The rare fourth nominalizer is -ik.  This suffix is used to indicate a
> language with some relationship to the base. It is no longer only used with
> verbs, but has been extended for use with the nouns, even proper names. I
> don't know where it came from, but it must be old, given its small size.
Which is almost the same as Yivríndil -il, used to form the names of
languages.  The Yivríndil ending is still productive, though, since it's
just a reapplication of the productive adjective ending -il.


Jesse S. Bangs jaspax@u.washington.edu
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