Talk:-qaqï

Hi @Gamren, are you sure -qaqï can be differentiated from -qï? I can only seem to find evidence of the latter in my different affix lists (Fortescue, Lybech, etc.) ... qaqï seems to have the same meaning, and they both result in /qaaq/ endings. If you think it's definitely a separate suffix could you point me to a reference and I'll add it to the Appendix. Thanks —Jakeybean^TALK 00:31, 3 January 2021 (UTC)

@Jakeybean It's a while ago, but the only source I could have gotten this from is F.A.J. Nielsen's Vestgrønlandsk Grammatik (note that Nielsen, like Lybech, uses the <ə> convention). It's a verbalizing suffix with the meaning "there are many [noun]", and is clearly just a compound of -qar + -qï ([noun] -> there are [noun] -> there are [noun] to a high degree). However, I was wrong to migrate the example sentences that you had added; those belong on -qï. I'll admit I still don't understand how -qï plus the 3rd-sg. indic. gives -qaaq.__Gamren (talk) 18:21, 3 January 2021 (UTC)

@Gamren Me neither to be honest. Is that Google book link the whole book or just partial view? I haven't had access to that before so thanks for sharing :) BTW I have seen the analyzer... I've used it but I wasn't sure how accurate it is? Definitely a useful little tool. —Jakeybean^TALK 15:06, 4 January 2021 (UTC)

@Jakeybean I don't think Google Books generally lets you see the entire book. However, the book was only published in 2019; the version I used, and referenced using the {{R:VGG}} template, was just a pdf, which can still be found online (e.g. here). I'd recommend downloading it, in case it gets taken down.__Gamren (talk) 19:02, 4 January 2021 (UTC)

@Gamren You are a star ♦ I was looking for a while for a free pdf of it, but I think my Google is biased towards only English language website >:( —Jakeybean^TALK 19:18, 4 January 2021 (UTC)