locativize
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verb
[edit]locativize (third-person singular simple present locativizes, present participle locativizing, simple past and past participle locativized)
- (grammar) To convert to a locative form.
- 1959, Anthropological Linguistics, page 375:
- […] (the Ateso prefix o- locativizes the noun).
- 1988, Linguistic Change & Contact: Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Conference on New Ways of Analyzing Variation, page 138:
- -co is a morpheme that, taking the place of the absolutive nominal suffix, locativizes noun stems.
- 1991, Lawrence Richard Morgan, A Description of the Kutenai Language, page 454:
- As in the Deictic Pronoun Locative Construction, in the Definite Reference Locative Construction, the verbal stem is locativized by the encliticization of the Locative Marker onto the verbal stem.
- 1997, Studies in African Linguistics, page 186:
- Again there are two acceptable ways of locativizing a class 5 nominal.
- 2006, Linguistics, page 182:
- Normally, these nouns would be locativized by means of the locative suffix -ng, but it would seem that some uneasiness exists regarding the use of this suffix to locativize neologisms, specifically terms, regardless of whether these are loanwords/adoptives from English or Afrikaans, or existing Northern Sotho words (the semantic content of which has been adapted to designate new concepts).
- 2008, Derek Nurse, Tense and Aspect in Bantu, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 289:
- In most Bantu languages many nouns can be locativized by recategorizing them in a locative class.
- 2010, Arnett Wilkes, Nikolias Nkosi, Complete Zulu, Teach Yourself, published 2014, →ISBN:
- Nouns belonging to Classes 1, la, 2, 2a and 6 (signifying people) are locativized by replacing the initial vowel of the noun with the locative prefix ku-, for example: […]