Re: infix
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, March 22, 2001, 0:11 |
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Frank George Valoczy wrote:
> word: megverethetne'lek = I could havve you beaten up if I wanted to
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> ver: to beat
> meg- : perfective
> -et- : causative? /megveret/ means "to have sy beaten up/
> -het- : conditional
> -ne'- : conditional
> -l- : modifies -et- to show that it is 2pers sg being beaten up
> -ek : 1pers sg pres
Those aren't actually infixes, but rather, a string of suffixes.
Infixes go inside the *root*, like in Uatakassí, -la- is the
superlative. It goes after the first vowel/glide, so that tiká (old)
becomes tilaká (oldest).
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