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Revision as of 10:57, 9 August 2017
Contents
Summary
Akachenti calls their own affixation system "constructions", with fully inflected verbs generally called "constructed" verbs.
- Prefixes: morning constructions
- Suffixes: evening constructions
- Circumfixes/Discontinuous Affixes: morning and evening constructions or day constructions
This is separate from actual inflection, which is the modification of vowel person markers and sometimes verb stem.
This is also separate from derivation where a newly constructed word is treated as a single, totally new root. The line between derivation and construction is more blurred than the line between inflection and construction, as derived words are often not able to take further constructions or affixes.
Constructions
Auxiliary Verb Constructions
| root | word | IPA | meaning | word class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| da | da- | da | 1. FUT. IMPERS. will; 2. SUBJUNCT. should |
TAM prefix |
| root | word | IPA | meaning | word class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| da | -da(k)(V) | da | to want | aux. verb |
| root | word | IPA | meaning | word class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| da | dak(V) | dak | to want | aux. verb |
Auxiliary verbs in Akachenti don't stand alone. When used independently, as a rule, there is an implied rest of the sentence. Eventually, this will actually become a full independent verb, but in Modern Akachenti, there are rather firm constraints on inflection due to the dependent nature of the verbs as auxiliaries.
Derivational Affixes
| root | word | IPA | meaning | word class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| su | -ste | ste | to cause or induce |
Classifiers
| root | word | IPA | meaning | word class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ki | ki- | ki | again, twice, too | preverb |
| su | su- | su | 1. a closed set of people or things; 2. these |
prenoun |
| root | word | IPA | meaning | word class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ki | -ko | ko | pair, couple | bound demonstrative |
| su | -sut | sut | 1. a closed set of people or things; 2. these |
bound demonstrative |
| root | word | IPA | meaning | word class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| su | suta | sut | 1. a closed set of people or things; 2. these |
demonstrative |
