Good evening, afternoon, or morning to you, people of r/conlangs. Today's Saturday, and that means it's time for another typological paper! Once again, there will be some prompts for you to discuss in the comments.
Nominalization in Numhpuk Singpho (Morey)
This week's paper is concerned with nominalization in the Numhpuk variety of the Tibeto-Burman language Singpho. Nominalization generally refers to the morphological process in which a noun is derived from a word of another word class. Genetti 2008 notes that there are two subtypes of nominalizations: derivational nominalization, which derives a lexical noun from a lexical root, and clausal nominalization, which applies to a clause and derives a noun phrase. Today you can write anything that's got to do with nominalization in your language! To give you some input, here are this week's prompts:
- How does nominalization generally work in your language?
- Is there a syntactic or morphological distinction between derivational and clausal nominalization?
- What is nominalization used for?
- Are there any other interesting derivational processes going on in your language?
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So, that's about it for this week's edition. See you next Saturday, and happy conlanging!