Persian affixes in Lezgian
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Information and examples are from Haspelmath (1993:107) and from Don Stilo (personal communication 2013).
3 nominalizers (out of a total of 8 nominalizers in Lezgian)
- -qʰan ‘agent nouns from nouns’, e.g. xpe-qʰan ‘sheep herder’
- -gan ‘nouns denoting containers from nouns’, e.g. t’urar-gan ‘box for spoons’
- -ban ‘nouns denoting people associated with the thing denoted by the base word’, e.g. wak’ar-ban ‘swineherd’