Ilokano affixes in Guina-ang Bontok
Summary
Description
Information and examples are from Lawrence Reid (personal communication, January 2012).
3 non-interrelated forms
- =to/=nto ‘future’, encliticized to predicate, used in addition to inherited, preverbal future auxiliary. Only occurs in speech of younger generation (as of early 21st century), e.g. mapan=ka=nto ‘you will go’
- mang-/nang- ‘completed aspect, intransitive’, replaced native ma{n,n,ng}- +deletion of initial consonant of stem, e.g. nang-sulbar ‘(they) solved’
- taga- ‘a person from’ derivation, replaced native i-; could be from Ilokano or Tagalog, e.g. tagabaryo ‘someone from the neighborhood’