-ajö
Ye'kwana
[edit]| ALIV | -ajö |
|---|---|
| Brazilian standard | -ajä |
| New Tribes | -ajä |
Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Cariban *-sapô. Cognates in most other Cariban languages do not allow any person marking; this innovation seems largely restricted to Ye'kwana and languages of the Panare and Pemon groups.
Pronunciation
[edit]Suffix
[edit]-ajö
- Forms nouns with perfective-past-participle-like meaning (‘the fact that X was done’) from verbs, which can take patient-like person markers and which, if intransitive, must bear the intransitive prefix w-.
Usage notes
[edit]This suffix can trigger syllable reduction on the preceding syllable. The suffix takes the form -kajö when the preceding syllable is reducible and has an onset of k, -yajö when the preceding syllable ends in i, and -ajö in other contexts. When the final vowel of the preceding syllable is o or ö and the stem is three or more syllables long, that vowel changes to a and forms a single (long) syllable with the -a- of this suffix; final stem vowels of a also merge into a single long syllable.
Person markers referring to interlocutors on a verb nominalized with this suffix are uncommon outside of conditional subordinates formed with a nominalization in -ajö and the postposition jökö.
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “-ajö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon, pages 51, 141–142