Details

General

Description and behaviour

Form and usage:

The authors of [MFSJLK10] define this morpheme as '(present passive) participial'. However, they use the word 'participial' in two different senses: both when speaking of the participial mood (which is part of the verbal inflection), but also when speaking of what I call a participle, i.e. a nominalisation of a verbal stem (which therefore has a nominal inflection). The examples they cite seem to indicate, that the present morpheme was used in both senses: i.e. both as a verbal mood marker, corresponding to the transitive participial mood marker {gə} in the Inuit daughter languages, but also as a nominalising affix (similar to +{ður}N).

One may also wonder whether there is some deeper connexion between these participle forms, i.e. whether

• +{kə}+ relates to +{ðə}N, as
• +{kar}N relates to +{ðar}N,

which perhaps could explain why there are multiple morphemes acting as passive participles. However, the authors of [MFSJLK10] say nothing about this.

Meanings and examples

Search the corpus for further examples.

References

• [MFSJLK10] Michael Fortescue, Steven Jacobson, Lawrence Kaplan (2010): Comparative Eskimo Dictionary (2ED).