7. Postpositions
postposition
7.1 Defining the category
- monomorphemic vs bipartite (vs 'stacked')
7.2 Inflectional morphology
Postpositions take the same inflectional prefixes as nouns (4.3.1), in addition to a third person prefix të-:
_C | _V | |
---|---|---|
3 | t- | të- / i- |
NP | ∅ | y- |
7.3 Derivational morphology
7.4 The postpositional phrase
TBD
7.5 Locative Postpositions
- clear bipartite Ground+Path
- unproductive Bipartite X+Path?
- other forms
all | loc | |
---|---|---|
inside | yaka | yawë |
aquatic | ? | ? |
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- further postpositions:
- poye 'above'
- po 'locative'
- yatë 'locative'
- yapo 'negation'?
-
peti ?‘His knee, his leg went out towards Ayacucho.’ ()
7.6 Nonlocative oblique postpositions
7.7 Misc
- chi combines with yawë, sometimes spelled chi yawë, sometimes chawë.
- postpositions on bare verbs? (e.g. wejtawë)
- plural: kontomo
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‘Who are we gonna talk to? We’re alone, aunt.’ (Conversación sobre la risa entre GrMe y ElPe : 47)