- In linguistics, a
postbase is a
special kind of
grammatical suffixing morpheme that is
suffixed to a base. It is
mostly found in Eskimo–Aleut languages...
- more
postbases).
There are four
kinds of
postbases: VN:
postbases deriving nouns from
verbs NV:
postbases deriving verbs from
nouns NN:
postbases constructing...
- 'people from Natchilik') came from
natsik 'seal' +
postbase -lik 'place with something' +
postbase -miut 'inhabitants of'.
There are
three main dialect...
- (atikłuk =
cloth cover for fur parka,
commonly called "snowshirt" )
Inupiaq postbases Seiler, Wolf A. 2012. Iñupiatun
Eskimo Dictionary. SIL
International Partners...
- formation.
There are a
great number of
derivational suffixes (termed
postbases) that are used
productively to form
these polysynthetic words. Yupʼik...
- root are a
number of
postbases,
which are
bound morphemes that add to the
basic meaning of the root. If the
meaning of the
postbase is to be
expressed alone...
- stem can
appear as
simple (having no
postbases) or
complex (having one or more
postbases). In Iñupiaq a "
postbase serves somewhat the same
functions that...
- by the en****ic
subject pronoun.
There are 570
derivational suffixes (
postbases)
including many
composite ones, but
about two
thirds are
found only in...
- them are so
semantically salient and so they are
often referred to as
postbases,
rather than suffixes,
particularly in the
American tradition of Eskimo...
- Cupʼig). Yupʼik
comes from the Yupʼik word yuk,
meaning 'person', plus the
postbase -pik (or -piaq),
meaning 'real' or 'genuine'; thus, Yupʼik
literally means...
