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5-3.41.2 -:-

As in the case of zero complement vowel-drop,
vowel length is more properly a morphophonemic process
than a suffix, but as it occurs to verbalize noun roots,
stems, and themes, it is here included with the other
verbalizers.

When vowel-length verbalization is followed by
a suffix that requires a preceding consonant, the length
may be somewhat reduced, or the vowel in question may
revert to simple length, or it may remain somewhat
lengthened; length appears to vary from one speaker to
another. A timed spectrographic analysis of texts con-
taining vowel length verbalization is needed to define
the length in different contexts. In this study some
examples containing the morpheme of vowel-length verbali-
zation show the notation /:/ before a consonant-requiring
suffix, if more than one vowel-length was perceived to
occur. If only one vowel-length was perceived, the
notation /:/ is usually omitted from the transcription,
the presence of a vowel before a consonant-requiring
suffix being sufficient to indicate the underlying pres-
ence of the vowel-length morpheme in that context.

This suffix is in complementary distribution
with -ka- ~ -ja- verbalizer, never occurring after -na

possessive/locational. Examples: