Semantic categorisation

In his affix list [13], Michael Fortescue introduces a grouping of affixes with related meanings. This classification was taken up and further extended by Nielsen in his combined grammar and affix list [8]. I have added these tags to the affix collection in MOFO as well, based on Nielsen's work.

• Semantic categorisation
  • Verbalisers (Vbr)
    • Being and becoming N
    • Lacking N
    • Feeling w.r.t. N
    • Having N; there is N
      • Consider obj having N
    • Acquiring N
    • Moving in relation to N
    • Acting and seeming like N
    • Doing with N
      • Removing N
      • Providing N
      • Making N
      • Using (obj. as) N
  • Verb-extenders (Vb-ext)
    • Judging and saying
    • Seeming to Vb
    • Wishing and waiting
    • Causation and request
    • Striving and intending to Vb
    • Inclination and ability
    • Relation shifters
  • Verbal modifiers (Vb-mod)
    • Not yet, soon
    • For/in a long time