|
amik
|
+
|
ayap
|
ą
|
mikyap
|
migyap
|
‘eye brow’
|
|
eye
|
|
cover
|
|
|
|
|
|
tat
|
+
|
gė(la)
|
ą
|
tatgėla
|
tadgėla
|
‘after listening’
|
|
listen
|
|
suffix
|
|
|
|
|
|
yup
|
+
|
du
|
ą
|
yupdu
|
yulbdu
|
‘is sleeping’
|
|
sleep
|
|
aux
|
|
|
|
|
|
nap
|
+
|
mur
|
ą
|
nabmur
|
nammur
|
‘beard’
|
|
lip
|
|
hair
|
|
|
|
|
|
amik
|
+
|
azin
|
ą
|
mikzin
|
migzin
|
‘wound in the eye’
|
|
|
| (d) Final /N/
is deleted before formative suffixes : |
| - N
ą
O / - [Formative suffixes] |
kebu
|
+
|
de
|
kebudė
|
‘the rat’
|
|
rat
|
|
article
|
|
|
aru
|
+
|
l
|
arul
|
‘in the hole’
|
|
hole
|
|
loc-suffix
|
|
|
barz
|
+
|
ne
|
barzne
|
‘one who is skilled in climbing
trees’
|
|
skillful climber
|
|
adj.suffix
|
|
|
isi
|
+
|
kiride
|
isikiride
|
‘the trees’
|
|
tree
|
|
pl.uffix
|
|
the trees
|
|
|
| (e) Personal pronouns
taking plural /-lu/ undergo vowel harmony : |
| {
} |
| { i }
u/- u |
|
|
+
|
lu
|
ą
|
fulu
|
‘we’
|
|
I
|
|
pl
|
|
|
|
n
|
+
|
lu
|
ą
|
nulu
|
‘you (pl.)’
|
|
you
|
|
pl
|
|
|
|
|
bļ
|
+
|
lu
|
ą
|
bulu
|
‘they’
|
|
he/she
|
|
pl
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
MORPHOLOGY |
| Introduction
: |
| Missing morphemes may be
broadly classified into two groups: roots and no roots. All the roots
enter into higher morphological constructions to form a stem. The
roots may be classified into four categories i.e., nouns and noun
substitutes, adjectives including numerals and classifiers, verbs
and adverbs. No roots f are forms which do not serve as bases for
higher morphological constructions. These may be classified into three
categories, ie., affixes, post-positions and particles. Affixes include
prefixes, infixes and suffixes and are bound forms. Particles are
free forms and are not inflected. Actually, they function at levels
beyond the words. These are emphatics, connectives, and interceptive.
The morphological processes which are employed are affixation, juxtaposition,
reduplication and compounding. |
| A word in Mising has been
defined as a free form plus a bound form or a combination of two or
more free forms. In Missing, the distinction between a compound word
and a phrase is that a compound word can undergo certain morphophonemic
changes whereas a phrasal construction does not. Juxtaposed constructions
may be claimed to be phrasal constructions, where, most of the time,
postpositions are dropped. But never the less, such constructions
function as a single unit and, hence, are to be treated as single
words. |
