Re: Nouns from Verbs
| From: | Herman Miller <hmiller@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, June 15, 2003, 4:24 |
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On Sat, 14 Jun 2003 01:25:45 -0400, Rob Haden <magwich78@...> wrote:
>Hello everyone,
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>I was wondering what your methods are for deriving nouns from verbs. More
>specifically, how to derive instances of verbal activities from verbal
>roots/stems -- i.e., "(a) kick" from "(to) kick".
Lindiga has the suffix -ás for activities derived from verbs: rsing-
"teach", rsingás "teaching"; tirr- "buy", tirrás "purchase". I don't
distinguish instances of activities from abstract activities, as you can
tell from these two examples; "rsingás" refers to teaching in general, not
necessarily just a single act of teaching, but "tirrás" is more likely to
refer to a particular act of buying.