Documentation And Description Of Noun Morphology In Kafinoonoo

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This paper focuses on documenting and describing nominal inflectional andrnderivational morphology in Kafmoonoo. Regarding inflection, nouns in Kafinoonoornare inflected for gender, number and case. Gender is of two types in Kafinoonoo:rnmasculine or feminine. Masculine gender is marked by the suffix -0--00. In mostrncases, the vowel -0(00) is the default ending for nouns. This morpheme also serves asrnaugmentative with inanimate objects. It also serves as a plural marker for naturallyrnfeminine genders. Feminine gender is marked by -e- -ee or -i. Both vowels also servernas diminutive marker with inanimate objects. Number is marked in many ways. Thernsuffix -nalo is the plural marker for regular nouns. When the PL marker -nalo isrnattached to the base noun, the gender is neutralized to generic gender. In addition,rnsome nouns mark plural by reduplication of the fin al syllable or the whole stem, or byrnusing the masculine marker. Demonstrative and interrogative pronouns mark theirrnplural by the suffix -fi.rnCase is marked by different strategies. Suffixation of the inflectional morpheme -n,rnlengthening of terminal vowels, or using the unmarked noun or pronoun arernaccusative case marking strategies. Genitive case is marked by attaching -ttfo- -ttfi orrn-d3-dd3i to the citation form of nouns or pronouns. The morpheme -d3-dd3i onlyrnoccurs as genitive marker with nouns ending in a nasal preceded by a vowel.rnConcerning derivation, abstract and result nouns can be derived from nouns andrnadjectives. Agent nouns are derived from verb stems. Agent nouns are gender specificrnand so that inflectional morphology is occurred in the process of agent nounrnderivation. Certain euphemisms and manner nouns are derived by compounding.

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Documentation And Description Of Noun Morphology In Kafinoonoo

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