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Description and behaviour

Form and usage:

This affix is used instead of the intransitive participle V{ðuq}N on some adjectival bases, fx angisooq, takisooq, sukkasooq, to form adjectival nouns. These constructions are all lexicalised, so the affix is not used productively.

Note that not all adjectival bases use this morpheme: for example, mikivoq, mikisoq does not use it. Thus, whether an adjectival stem forms its intransitive participle with the present affix, or with the normal intransitive participle affix, is a feature of each stem, which must be learned separately.

Note also the affix N{tuuq}N, 'one who has much N', which in some cases seems to be used in the same sense as the present affix; i.e. to form nouns with an adjectival meaning. There may also be some conflation between this and the present affix. For example, some of the examples mentioned by Schultz-Lorentzen [11] under the entry for -tûvoĸ, -sûvoĸ, i.e. N{tuu}V, the verbal form of N{tuuq}N, must in fact have been formed with the present affix. For example itisooq, itisuuvoq, '(it is) deep', which is from {ətə}V, which means that the final vowel is not a true /i/, and therefore cannot have caused assibilation of /t/ to /s/. Thus, these words must instead have been formed with the present affix.

Lastly, when nouns, derived with the present affix, are followed by the affix N{-u}V, 'be N', the extra /u/ is dropped, rather than injecting an epenthetic /j/. This replaces the construction V{ðuu}V with the ordinary intransitive participle. See the affix V{suu}V for this combination.

Right sandhi:

When followed by the affix N{-u}V, 'be N', the extra /u/ is dropped, rather than injecting an epenthetic /j/.

Inflection

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Meanings and examples

Tags

• Stem categorisation / Participle
• Stem categorisation / Non-productive morpheme