Postpositions
Defining the category
- monomorphemic vs bipartite (vs 'stacked')
Inflectional morphology
Postpositions take the same inflectional prefixes as nouns (Suffixes for possessed and non-possessed nouns), in addition to a third person prefix të-:
Person marking prefixes on postpositions
_C | _V | |
---|---|---|
3 | t- | të- / i- |
NP | ∅ | y- |
Derivational morphology
- ësë- ‘detrz’
The postpositional phrase
TBD
Locative Postpositions
- clear bipartite Ground+Path
- unproductive Bipartite X+Path?
- other forms
Locative postpositions
all | loc | |
---|---|---|
inside | yaka | yawë |
aquatic | ? | ? |
to do: gather all postpositions, organize
- further postpositions:
- poye 'above'
- po 'locative'
- yatë 'locative'
- yapo 'negation'?
Nonlocative oblique postpositions
Misc
- chi ‘cop’ combines with yawë ‘loc’, sometimes spelled chi yawë, sometimes chawë.
- postpositions on bare verbs? (e.g. wejtawë)
- plural: kontomo
- Who are we gonna talk to? We’re alone, aunt. / con quién será que vamos a hablar nosotros, nosotras estamos solas (convrisamaj: 47)