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A grammar of Pite Saami, 2014

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10.3 Adjectival derivation<br />

on verb stems, and this and other related topics must be left for future study.<br />

The reader is referred to Ruong (1943) for a more thorough morphological and<br />

semantic account <strong>of</strong> <strong>Pite</strong> <strong>Saami</strong> passives. Inflectional aspects <strong>of</strong> passivized verbs<br />

are treated in §8.3, while syntactic aspects <strong>of</strong> clauses with passive verbs are presented<br />

briefly in §13.1.1.1.<br />

Note that the derivational suffix -duvv can have meanings other than passive<br />

when attached to a nominal or adjectival base. Typically it then expresses a<br />

change <strong>of</strong> state that is related to the referent <strong>of</strong> the root involved. A few examples<br />

are provided in (65) through (68).<br />

(65) vuoras → vuoras-duvva-t ‘age (verb)’<br />

old old-pass-inf [2188]<br />

(66) bevas → bevas-duvva-t ‘become sweaty’<br />

sweat\nom.sg sweat-pass-inf [6084]<br />

(67) giella → giela-duvva-t ‘become hoarse’<br />

language\nom.sg language-pass-inf [3876]<br />

(68) tjálbme → tjálme-duvva-t ‘become blind’<br />

eye\nom.sg eye-pass-inf [1876]<br />

10.3 Adjectival derivation<br />

Only two derivational processes exist for adjectivals: the non-productive derivation<br />

<strong>of</strong> adjectives by -s, and the productive derivation <strong>of</strong> ordinal numerals from<br />

cardinal ones. These are described below.<br />

10.3.1 Adjective derivation<br />

It seems conceivable that adjectives can be derived by the suffix -s (glossed as<br />

adjz). For instance, bahá is a nominal meaning ‘evil’, as in (69), and bahás is the<br />

equivalent attributive adjective form, as in (70).<br />

(69) dat<br />

d-a-t<br />

almatj<br />

almatj<br />

dem-dist-nom.sg person\nom.sg<br />

‘That person is evil.’<br />

lä bahá<br />

lä bahá<br />

be\3sg.prs<br />

evil\nom.sg<br />

[pit090926.13m36s]e<br />

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