Sentence examples for verbal derivation from inspiring English sources
:atuar-toq taku-ara "I saw her read/I saw that she read" :read-PART/3p see-I/3p :neriu-ppunga tiki-ssa-soq "I hope he is coming/I hope he'll come" :hope-I come-expect-PART/3p Verbal derivation is extremely productive, and Greenlandic employs many hundreds of derivational suffixes.
Qidr, a noun derived from the same root, means "cauldron, kettle", and also gives the verbal derivation, "to cook".
Verbal derivation was richly developed already in Proto-Uralic with a wide variety of verbal nouns, infinitives, and participles.
Nevertheless, some roots did exist that did not have a primary verbal derivation.
Dickey establishes seven parameters of variation in aspectual usage: habituality, the simple denotation of past actions, the historical present, stage directions and other instructions, performatives and other cases of the coincidence of utterance and action, the imperfective in sequences of actions, and the derivation of verbal nouns.
Projects include a verbal presentation and writeup covering both the numerical and geophysical parts plus additional derivations as needed.
The use of z-scores made possible the derivation of a composite score for receptive language (zreceptive language= zTROG+zBPVS /2). The children's non-verbal abilities were assessed by their scores on Ravens Coloured Progressive Matrices (RCPM).
I. Derivation and application.
