Details
General
| Morphemic form: | V{gama} |
| New orthography: | +gama, -rama, -kkama |
| Old orthography: | -gama, -ama, -kama |
| Sources: | [CR88], [CWSL51], [SB03], [FAJN19] |
| Combinations: | View list |
| Left sandhi: | Default |
Description and behaviour
Form and usage:
This is the intransitive causative ending for 1sg Subject, formed from the mood marker {ga} and the 1sg person marker {ma}.
Note that this is a dependent mood, and it uses the ergative person markers cf. the ergative possessive 1sg ending N{ma}.
Meanings and examples
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References
- [CR88] Christian Rasmussen (1888): Grønlandsk Sproglære.
- [CWSL51] C.W. Schultz-Lorentzen (1951): Det Vestgrønlandske Sprog.
- [SB03] Stig Bjørnum (2003): Grønlandsk Grammatik.
- [FAJN19] Flemming A.J. Nielsen (2019): Vestgrønlandsk Grammatik.