Suffix
The image above illustrates the suffixes used to indicate positions of an event and a change in event. The arrows indicate the flow of time and space as proceeding through an event.
In linguistics, a suffix (sometimes termed postfix) is an affix which is placed after the stem of a word, (Wikipedia: “Suffix,” n.d.). In nselišcn, there are three types of suffixes:
- Lexemic Suffix
- Derivational Suffix
- Inflectional Suffix
Lexemic Suffix
- -č, durative
- -č̓, inverse
- -h, inside the outer portion
- -ixʷ, animate form
- -k̓ʷ, intransitive effort
- -n, indefinite
- -š, specific aim/goal, point
- -xʷ, essence, outer facing
- -x̌ʷ, intra-
Derivational Suffix
Subject affixes
- -en, first person subject
- -exʷ, second person subject
- -es, third person subject
- qeɁ-, first person plural subject
- -t, second person plural subject
- -eɁes, third person plural subject
Object affixes
- qʷo- first person object
- -ci, second person object
- qeɁ-/ /-l, first person plural object
- -em, second person plural object
Transitive Suffix
- -nt, transitive
- -st, causative
- -ɬul, first & second person plural transitive
- -ɬt, applicative substitutive
- -šit, applicative benefactive
Imperative Suffix
- -š, intransitive imperative
- -wi, plrual intransitive imperative
- -šiš, indefinite intransitive imperative
- -int, transitive imperative
- -inti, plural transitive imperative
- -iskʷ, causative imperative
- -iskʷi, plural causative imperative
- -šit, benefactive imperative
- -šiti, plural benefactive imperative