Eastern Tucanoan languages affixes in Tariana
Summary
Description
Information and examples are from Aikhenvald (2012:175–177). The following three forms are used consistently by speakers of all generations, a few more by younger speakers or inconsistently.
1 conditional-potential enclitic
- =bohta, e.g. kwe-bohtI waha-pu-bohta (how-conditional/1pl-augmentative-conditional) ‘how could we...’, hanipa-bohta kasitana (big+classifier.closed_space-conditional/be_fed_up) ‘It would be really annoying’ (Aikhenvald 1999:104–105; see also Aikhenvald 2003:390–393)
2 manner enclitics
- =pisi ‘stretch’, no examples of hybrid formations are given by Aikhenvald (2012:175–177) or Aikhenvald (1999), but since lexical borrowing is very limited, it is safe to assume that there are many.
- =miña ‘light’, used only with the verb ‘see’, e.g. di-ka=miña (3sg.non_feminine-see=light) ‘(close one’s eyes) and see little lights and stars’ (Aikhenvald 2012:176)