locativize

English

Etymology

From locative +‎ -ize

Verb

locativize (third-person singular simple present locativizes, present participle locativizing, simple past and past participle locativized)

1. (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: […]