Minhast: Difference between revisions
Rearranged the Preverb 1 slot, based mostly on theme (e.g. intensives), or in the case of the Potentive, Necessitive, and Desiderative, the area where they're statistically most likely to occur, which is near the beginning of the slot |
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| no/not | | no/not | ||
| This affix occupies the first slot of the verb template. | | This affix occupies the first slot of the verb template. | ||
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! Expective | ! Expective | ||
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| supposed to, expected to | | supposed to, expected to | ||
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! Potentive | |||
| -nitt(a)- | |||
| might, possibly | |||
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|- | |||
!Necessitive | |||
| -(y)yat- | |||
| to be necessary | |||
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|- | |- | ||
! Desiderative | ! Desiderative | ||
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|- | |- | ||
! Preparative | |||
| -kar(a)- | |||
| to get ready to | |||
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! Approximative | ! Approximative | ||
| -ntar- | | -ntar- | ||
| almost | | almost | ||
| Denotes an action that was or is nearly to be carried out. | | Denotes an action that was or is nearly to be carried out. | ||
|- | |- | ||
! Causative | ! Causative | ||
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| When used with the Privative, become the Negative Causative | | When used with the Privative, become the Negative Causative | ||
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! Permittive (Indirect Causative) | ! Permittive (Indirect Causative) | ||
| -mušk- | | -mušk- | ||
| to allow | | to allow | ||
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! Reversative-Privative | |||
| -mašn- | |||
| to undo or prevent | |||
| Reverses or prevents a state or action. | |||
|- | |- | ||
! Intensive | ! Intensive | ||
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| Opposite and incompatible with the Intensive | | Opposite and incompatible with the Intensive | ||
|- | |- | ||
! | !Excessive | ||
| - | | -(ha)pm(a)- | ||
| very, extremely, too much | |||
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| -knak- | | -knak- | ||
| to immediately do the same action | | to immediately do the same action | ||
| This affix occurs only with semantically non-stative verbs. For transitive verbs, it means "to do something back at someone else", in which case the Reciprocal Adversarial affix must co-occur. For intransitive, agentive verbs, it means "he/she/it did the same thing too". The immediacy of the action is highly salient. | | This affix occurs only with semantically non-stative verbs. For transitive verbs, it means "to do something back at someone else", in which case the Reciprocal Adversarial affix must co-occur. For intransitive, agentive verbs, it means "he/she/it did the same thing too". The immediacy of the action is highly salient. | ||
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