Details
General
| Morphemic form: | V{-riiginnaq}V |
| New orthography: | -riiginnarit!, -riiginnaruk! |
| Old orthography: | -rîgínarit!, -rîgínaruk! |
| Combinations: | Click here |
| Constituents: | V{-riiq}V, V{-(g)innaq}V, |
| Left sandhi: | Truncative,
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| Right sandhi: | Default/none,
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| Inflection sandhi: | Default/none,
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| Stem type: | q-stem |
| Diathesis: | None |
| Valency change: | Preserving |
| Valency: | None,
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Description and behaviour
Form and usage:
This combination has a special meaning when used with endings in the imperative mood, where it denotes a sense of impatience: 'come on, Vb now already!'. Compare each of the constituents, which also have this meaning individually. The form is derived through insertion of the epenthetic /g/ at the boundary to separate /ii.i/, as V{-(g)innaq}V regularly does.
Left sandhi:
Left sandhi is inherited from the left-most component, V{-riiq}V. See this for details.
Right sandhi:
Right sandhi is inherited from the right-most component, V{-(g)innaq}V. See this for details.
Inflection sandhi:
Inflection sandhi is inherited from the right-most component, V{-(g)innaq}V. See this for details.
Meanings and examples
When used with the imperative mood
References
- [2] Michael Fortescue (1983): A comparative manual of affixes for the Inuit dialects of Greenland, Canada and Alaska.