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| ====Serial verbs==== | | ====Serial verbs==== |
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| ==Derivational morphology==
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| Some suffixes are pronounced differently depending on the final consonant of the root.
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| *''be-'': intensive/applicative/denominal verb prefix (''ge-'' before labials)
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| **'''''be'''rasten'' 'make powerful, strengthen' < ''Rast'' 'power'
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| **'''''ge'''beulen'' 'justify, straighten' < ''beul'' 'just'
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| *''<sup>U</sup>-e'': abstract noun, -ness/-hood
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| *''<sup>U</sup>-el'': nominalization, adjectivalization
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| *''-eln'': a frequentative affix
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| *''ent-'' (sometimes ''emp-'' before ''f''): perfective; causative/valency-incrementing
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| *''-er'': collective, augmentative, place noun, resultative
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| **''Pfug'''er''''' 'throne' < ''Pfug'' 'chair'
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| **''Rug'''er''''' 'statue' < ''rug, rieg, Rugs'' 'carve'
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| **''Jeng'''er''''' 'ocean, sea' < ''Jeng'' 'water'
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| *''-ern'': an intensifying verbal suffix
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| *''-igen'': an intensifying verbal suffix
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| *''-in'': patientive?
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| *''ge-'': an adjectivizer
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| *''ge-'': a collective
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| *''miss-'': negative
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| **'''''miss'''beul'' 'not straight, unjust' < ''beul'' 'straight, just'; '''''Miss'''verbeul'' - ''injustice''
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| *''-ke'': a nominalizer
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| *''-lein'' agent noun, someone associated with [NOUN]
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| **''Wink'''lein''''' 'mortal' < ''wink-'' 'die' + ''-lein''
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| *''-nung, -ung'': singulative/diminutive
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| *''-s'' (~ Thm. infinitve ''-s''): verbal nouns, nominalization
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| *''-t'': adjectivalizer
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| *''-ung'': singulative, patient noun; past participle
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| *''ur-'': augmentative
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| **'''''Ur'''ahn, '''Ur'''mahl'' 'grandfather, grandmother' < ''Ann, Mahl'' 'father, mother'
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| *''ver-'': a nominalizer
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| *''zer-'': passive
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| *''zu-'' (stressed): collective?
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| ==Phrasebook== | | ==Phrasebook== |