In linguistics, a postbase is a special kind of grammatical suffixing morpheme that is suffixed to a base. It is mostly found in Eskimo–Aleut languages...

more postbases). There are four kinds of postbases: VN: postbases deriving nouns from verbs NV: postbases deriving verbs from nouns NN: postbases constructing...

'people from Natchilik') came from natsik 'seal' + postbase -lik 'place with something' + postbase -miut 'inhabitants of'. There are three main dialect...

(atikłuk = cloth cover for fur parka, commonly called "snowshirt" ) Inupiaq postbases Seiler, Wolf A. 2012. Iñupiatun Eskimo Dictionary. SIL International Partners...

formation. There are a great number of derivational suffixes (termed postbases) that are used productively to form these polysynthetic words. Yupʼik...

root are a number of postbases, which are bound morphemes that add to the basic meaning of the root. If the meaning of the postbase is to be expressed alone...

by the enclitic subject pronoun. There are 570 derivational suffixes (postbases) including many composite ones, but about two thirds are found only in...

stem can appear as simple (having no postbases) or complex (having one or more postbases). In Iñupiaq a "postbase serves somewhat the same functions that...

Cupʼig). Yupʼik comes from the Yupʼik word yuk, meaning 'person', plus the postbase -pik (or -piaq), meaning 'real' or 'genuine'; thus, Yupʼik literally means...

them are so semantically salient and so they are often referred to as postbases, rather than suffixes, particularly in the American tradition of Eskimo...

literally «having louse's eggs» < ingqiq «nit, louse nit, egg of louse» + a postbase -liq «one who is V; one who Vs; one having V; one similar to N») and its...

combinations of deverbal nominalizations or participles and verbalizing postbases has also been claimed for West Greenlandic (passive participle + 'make...

22, 2015). Utkuhiksalingmiut Uqauhiitigut: Dictionary of Utkuhiksalingmiut Inuktitut Postbase Suffixes. Nunavut Arctic College. ISBN 978-1-897568-32-3....

socioterritorial groups (their native names will generally be found ending in -miut postbase which signifies "inhabitants of ..."), like those of north Alaska, were...