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General

Morphemic form: V{ŋŋivik}V
New orthography: -nngivippoq
Old orthography: '-ngivigpoĸ
Combinations: Click here
Constituents: V{ŋŋit}V, V{-vik}V,
See also: V{ŋŋitluinnaq}V,
Left sandhi:
Default,
Right sandhi:
Assibilation (t⇒s),
Inflection sandhi:
Default/none,
Stem type: k-stem
Diathesis: None
Valency change: Preserving
Valency:
None,

Description and behaviour

Form and usage:

This is a straightforward combination of V{ŋŋit}V, 'negation' and V{-vik}V, 'completely', giving the meaning 'not at all'. See also the reverse combination, V{-viŋŋit}V, for a different meaning. Note that although the affix is valency preserving, and hence can appear with transitive endings, there is not HTR-stem, since any HTR-morpheme would be added before this affix.


Left sandhi:

Left sandhi is inherited from the left-most component, V{ŋŋit}V. See this for details.


Right sandhi:

Right sandhi is inherited from the right-most component, V{-vik}V. See this for details.


Inflection sandhi:

Inflection sandhi is inherited from the right-most component, V{-vik}V. See this for details.


Meanings and examples

Or 'definitely not'.

  • paasinngivippara, I did not understand it at all

    From paasivara, 'I understand it'.


References