Kirtumur: Difference between revisions

occur in a fixed order and cannot be separated from each other. Stem and affixes together make up a single linguistic unit that cannot be broken up in any way, while clitics (such as noun case clitics) are grammatical words, because they can be separated from the linguistic units they are attached to, but they are not separate phonologically from nouns they modify.

===Nouns===

Nouns is an open class in Kirtumur. In principle, the number of nouns is unlimited. Apart from a large number of simple nouns, there are numerous complex nouns, most of them compounds, such as ''wimmuk'' ("basket", from ''wek-''  "cover" and ''muk'' "bundle"), but derivation by means of affixes is also common. Nouns are inflected for three grammatical categories: [[w:Grammatical case|case]], [[w:Possession (linguistics)|possession]] and [[w:Grammatical number|number]]. The category of [[w:Grammatical gender|gender]] (or animacy) is tied to the former categories. Nouns are not marked for definiteness and there is no article.