Details
General
| Morphemic form: | V{-ðakcau}V |
| New orthography: | -tassaavoq, -sassaavoq, -gassaavoq |
| Old orthography: | -tagssauvoĸ |
| Combinations: | Click here |
| Constituents: | V{-ðaq}N, N{kcaq}N, N{-u}V, |
| See also: | V{ðukcau}V, V{-ðau}V, |
| Left sandhi: | Truncative,
Irregular,
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| Right sandhi: | Default/none,
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| Inflection sandhi: | Default/none,
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| Stem type: | Vowel stem |
| Diathesis: | Patientive |
| Valency change: | Decreasing |
| Valency: | Monovalent,
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Description and behaviour
Form and usage:
This affix is a straightforward combination of passive participle V{-ðaq}N, future nominal N{kcaq}N, and N{-u}V, denoting 'Patient is to be Vb'ed', or 'shall be Vb'ed' etc.
This is thus the stative passive affix V{-ðau}V, with an interpolated future marker N{kcaq}N, and this construction seems to be preferred to adding the verbal future marker V{ssa}V after V{-ðau}V.
In other words, the construction
- V{-ðaq}N{kcaq}N{-u}V
seems to be preferred over the other, logically possible, construction
- V{-ðaq}N{-u}V{ssa}V
for denoting future stative passive. See also the related affix V{ðukcau}V, which is a similar combination, but with the intransitive participle V{ðuq}N instead of the passive participle.
Given its meaning, the affix only makes sense on divalent stems, since it reduces the valency.
The underlying Agent can be reintroduced in the Ablative case, just as with V{-ðau}V.
Left sandhi:
Left sandhi is inherited from the left-most component, V{-ðaq}N. See this for details.
Right sandhi:
Right sandhi is inherited from the right-most component, N{-u}V. See this for details.
Inflection sandhi:
Inflection sandhi is inherited from the right-most component, N{-u}V. See this for details.
Meanings and examples
References
- [4] C.W. Schultz-Lorentzen (1958): Den Grønlandske Ordbog.
- [8] Christian Berthelsen, Birgitte Jakobsen, Robert Petersen, Inge Kleivan & Jørgen Rischel (1997): Oqaatsit.