Details
General
| Morphemic form: | V{(t)siriit}V (Combinations) |
| New orthography: | -tseriippoq, +seriippoq |
| Proto-eskimoic root: | c(c)iʀyaʀ- |
| Constituents: | V{(t)siq}V + {?} + V{-it}V |
| Morpheme type: | Verbal modifier |
| Left sandhi: | Special (see description) |
| Right sandhi: | None |
Description
Form and usage:
This affix derives from a combination of V{(t)siriaq}V and the privative affix V{-it}V, 'is un-Vb'ing', where the latter has caused /aq/ to drop from the stem. According to Fortescue et al. (2010), the former itself derives from a combination of V{(t)siq}V and an old morpheme {yaʀ-} which has not come down into Greenlandic independently.
Left sandhi:The left-sandhi behaviour is similar to V{(t)siq}V, i.e. /s/ will not assimilate a preceding /t/, which applies both to the epenthetically injected /t/ and to a final /t/ of the preceding stem (both true t-stems and t(ə)-stems, since the affix is additive). See the entry for V{(t)siq}V for further details and examples.
Verb stem
| Right sandhi: | Regular |
| Valency: | Valency-preserving |
| Diathesis: | Unaltered (same as the stem) |
Meaning(s)
| Meaning | Notes | |
|---|---|---|
| Vb difficultly | I.e. 'does not/cannot easily Vb', also in the sense of 'is not liable to Vb'. | Examples |