Terminology for verbal derivation
john
john at research.haifa.ac.il
Mon Jul 16 05:40:26 UTC 2012
Dear Funknetters,
I'm looking for a term to use to refer to a form
for deriving verbs in Bari (-kindya) which seems to
generally add an
argument to the verb, but the argument can be any one of a variety of
types--it can be
an indirect object, a directional particle, just
about anything it seems (for example, when added to the
root meaning
'old age', it can take as an argument a place, with the meaning 'to live
to an old age while
living continuously at that place', or a
nominalized form of a verb referring to an occupation, with the
meaning 'to live to an old age while continuing to work at that
occupation'). Do you have any ideas what
term I might use to refer to
this form of the verb? I was initially going to call it the
'Benefactive' because
it's often used to add an indirect object (e.g.
'close a door for someone') but when I looked at all of the
usages of
this form it became clear that this is really a pretty small minority of
its uses.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
John
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