Details
General
| Morphemic form: | V{-liq}V (Combinations) |
| New orthography: | -lerpoq |
| Proto-eskimoic root: | liq- |
| Morpheme type: | Verbal modifier |
| Left sandhi: | Sandhi-truncative |
| Right sandhi: | Assibilation |
Description
Form and usage:
The affix indicates the onset of an action, or the transition from one state of being to another. Often, this can simply be translated as present tense, possibly with a 'now'. However, the affix is often required in Greenlandic, because many verb stems have an inherent past-tense meaning. In such cases, the effect of adding this affix is to locate the action right before the present moment.
Note also that the true /i/ can cause assibilation of a following /t/ to /s/.
Verb stem
| Right sandhi: | Regular |
| Valency: | Valency-preserving |
| Diathesis: | Unaltered (same as the stem) |
Meaning(s)
| Meaning | Notes | |
|---|---|---|
| begin to Vb | This is often too literal a translation. | Examples |