Tamil affixes in Sri Lanka Portuguese
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Information and examples are from Nordhoff (2013), Smith (2013) and personal communications from Sebastian Nordhoff and Ian Smith, 2012.
1 polite imperative marker
- -nga ‘imperative’, e.g. vii ‘come! (fam.)’ vs. viinga ‘come! (polite)’, kummenga ‘eat! (polite)’
1 conjunctive participle marker
- =tu ‘participle’, e.g. aka noos aka uusha kampani-pa daa=tu, aka jaa-faya dreetu (that/1pl/that/Usha/company-dative/give=perfective.participle/that/past-make/right) ‘we gave that to the Usha company and repaired it’