Nmzr: nominalizer
| Values: | Rel | Ag | Adv | Inst |
Nmzr is a morpheme that transformes another part of speech to a noun.
Rel: Relativizer
The relativizing morpheme -mãʔẽ can be regarded as a “translative” which allows to convert a predicate into an argument.
Examples
- okuwapa omanõmãʔẽ “He knows all the dead.”
- owatamaʔẽ oket “The walker is sleeping.”
Ag: Agentive
The agentive nominalizer is expressed in Tekó with the suffix -har.
Examples
- kob ibaʔehar “There is someone to do it”
- omõgʷeraharanẽ oʔuo “He eats his saviour.”
Adv: Adverbial
The adverbial nominalizer is marked in Tekó with suffixes -(e)war/-wan. It is often used to express the origin or place of being of an individual, or the usual location of a thing. It attaches to a demonstrative adverb or a postpositional group.
Examples
- amewar “People here”
- ipopewar “sth what is inside (the content)”
- tatapewan “ember (what is in the fire)”
Inst: Instrumental
The instrumental nominalizer with the suffix -a, which refers to an unanimate object.
Examples
- abaʔe baʔeraʔɨrapɨhɨka “I made a bird trap. (lit. an instrument for catching birds)”
- wɨraʔazozoga ate “It is the instrument used to pound the comou.”
Diffs
Prague Dependency Treebank
The PDT tagset does not distinguish Ptan from Plur and Coll from Sing,
therefore this distinction is not being made in the converted data.
Nmzr in other languages: [eme] [jaa]