Loan morphology

The morphology for the loan lexicon differs from that of the native lexicon in some ways.

First, it is important to note that the verbs of the loan lexicon do not conjugate. For this reason I have denoted them as v.n. for verbal noun. Verbal nouns require the use of an auxiliary verb such as wéıke (to do) to form inflected verbal phrases.

As for the adjectives marked adj., they are presented in the lexicon as bare stems. They form adverbs, and hence, their predicative forms by suffixing -. Adjectives marked adj. n. behave more like native adjectives, forming adverbs with -ə. Both can be nominalised with the suffix -sa to express state or degree, but not with the prefix e-, which is only used with native adjectives. They can also be zero-nominalised like the native adjectives, though this is less common.

All the nouns, including the verbal nouns, adjectivial nouns and nominalised adjectives decline as class I (monograde).