Tamil affixes in Sri Lanka Portuguese

Summary

Affix function number of borrowed affixes

Description

Information and examples 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’