Difference between revisions of "Imperatives and Hortatives"
From Sereer wiki
Jump to navigationJump to search (Created page with "===Imperatives=== Imperatives for singular listeners are formed with a suffix -i, e.g. geenoox-i "stand up!" (079). It is unclear if there is a negative imperative, e.g., "don'…") |
|||
| Line 3: | Line 3: | ||
Imperatives for singular listeners are formed with a suffix -i, e.g. geenoox-i "stand up!" (079). |
Imperatives for singular listeners are formed with a suffix -i, e.g. geenoox-i "stand up!" (079). |
||
| + | Imperatives for plural listeners are formed with a suffix -yo', e.g. jaw-yo'! "cook (pl)!" (103). It is unclear whether this is analyzable as a combination of the imperative morpheme -i and the plural marker -yo'. |
||
| − | It is unclear if there is a negative imperative, e.g., "don't stand up!" or "you'd better not stand up!". |
||
| + | |||
| + | A negative imperative (prohibitive?) is formed as follows: |
||
| + | |||
| + | '''bar''' + '''o/nu''' + V stem |
||
| + | |||
| + | e.g. bar o ret! "don't go (sg)!", bar nu ndet! "don't go (pl)!" (103). This can be contracted to ba + V stem on occasion, e.g. ba ret! "don't go (sg)!", ba ndet! "don't go (pl)!" (103) |
||
===Hortatives=== |
===Hortatives=== |
||
Revision as of 16:12, 31 October 2012
Imperatives
Imperatives for singular listeners are formed with a suffix -i, e.g. geenoox-i "stand up!" (079).
Imperatives for plural listeners are formed with a suffix -yo', e.g. jaw-yo'! "cook (pl)!" (103). It is unclear whether this is analyzable as a combination of the imperative morpheme -i and the plural marker -yo'.
A negative imperative (prohibitive?) is formed as follows:
bar + o/nu + V stem
e.g. bar o ret! "don't go (sg)!", bar nu ndet! "don't go (pl)!" (103). This can be contracted to ba + V stem on occasion, e.g. ba ret! "don't go (sg)!", ba ndet! "don't go (pl)!" (103)
Hortatives
It is unclear if there is a hortative, e.g. "let's stand up!"
