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Certain verb roots plus derivational suffixes may

act like derived nouns. Examples are given in 6-2.

5-3 Noun Suffixes

Noun suffixes occur only on noun roots, noun stems,
and nominalized themes. Noun suffix classes are four:

a class of limited occurrence and three order classes.
Class 1 consists of locationals, diminutives, a posses-
sor/enumerator, personal possessives, and plural. Class
2 consists of complement/relational (case) suffixes and
final noun suffixes. Class 3 noun suffixes are the ver-
balizers.

Figure 5-3 shows the order classes of noun suf-
fixes. This figure, adapted from my earlier version
(Hardman et al. 1975:3.281), shows all noun suffixes
and their allomorphs encountered in the research for
this study.

For general comments on noun suffix morphopho-

nemics, see 4-2.

5-3.1 Class of limited occurrence

5-3.11 Frozen limited suffixes

Frozen suffixes occur most often as recurrent
partials frozen in stems that do not occur without them,
but some also occur on certain free roots. Their meaning

is not usually apparent.