Details
General
| Morphemic form: | V{gallaq}V (Combinations) |
| New orthography: | +gallarpoq, -kkallarpoq, -rallarpoq |
| Proto-eskimoic root: | ɣallaq- |
| Morpheme type: | Verbal modifier |
| Left sandhi: | Default (additive, epenthetic or phonotactically truncative) |
| Right sandhi: | None |
Description
Form and usage:
This affix has a few irregular forms in imperative 2.sg, i.e. the endings V{-git} and V{-guk}, where it, for unknown reasons, drops its final /q/ and delete /g/ from the ending, instead of having /qg/ merge to /r/ as usual. Thus:
- V{gallaq}V{git} ⇒ /gallait/ ⇒ -gallaat
- V{gallaq}V{guk} ⇒ /gallauk/ ⇒ -gallaak
The general meaning of this affix seems to be to delimit a time frame for the verbal action. This can in particular be used with the causative mood to create a verbal time specification, locating the verbal action within a specific/bounded (past) time frame.
Verb stem
| Right sandhi: | Irregular changes to mood marker (see description) |
| Valency: | Valency-preserving |
| Diathesis: | Unaltered (same as the stem) |
Meaning(s)
| Meaning | Notes | |
|---|---|---|
| Vb for the time being | Examples | |
back then, when Subject Vb'ed |
When used together with the causative mood. This could also be translated e.g. as 'during'. Note also the combination V{ŋŋitgallaq}V, used to express 'before'. | Examples |
| Vb for a moment! | When used with the imperative mood, it acts as a softener of the command, which sometimes (depending on context) can be translated as 'for a moment'. | Examples |