Akachenti Morphology

Affixation and Derivation

Compounding and Incorporation

Akachenti is an incorporating language and frequently creates compound nouns, compound adjective-nouns, compound serial verbs, and incorporated "compound" noun-verbs.

Rules of Compounding

1. Identical or near-identical adjacent syllables are merged, e.g. a + kacha + chan + enti = Akachenti, not *Akachachanenti

Inflectional Affixes

Inflectional affixes appear to all be postpositions, in keeping with an OVS language and verbs tending to fuse at the end of a word. Unlike evening constructions, inflectional affixes have fused sufficiently that they no longer attract glottalic tone to their first and last syllables. Inflectional affixes serve as a compounded extension of the root.

The Verb Base

There are two primary verb bases, demonstrated below.

Synchronic Examples

unmarked	+ agentive affix	optative	+ agentive affix
baga:	baga:v(a)	baga:sha	∅
ashi	ashik(a)	ashiv(a)	∅

Inflection II

Table I

Root	Citation Form	Class	Common Form	Relative Affix	Nominalized
eh	ieh	adj./adv.	iehi, "no" OR "it's not"	e:t, "don't" OR iet, "oh no", "that's bad"
gah	gah	adj./adv.	gahi, "yes" OR "that's good"	gahot, "one's (this/that)"
s	sa	verb	isi, "it is"	su(t), "a closed set"	se:n, "what it is"