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Definitions

  1. EN: a function word that combines with a noun or pronoun or noun phrase to form a prepositional phrase that can have an adverbial or adjectival relation to some other word; also: (linguistics) the placing of one linguistic element before another (as placing a modifier before the word it modifies in a sentence or placing an affix before the base to which it is attached). (silver)

Morphological structure

`hamana` combines: the root **`hama`** + the suffix **`-na`** (1.SG.OBJ: first-person singular object suffix.).

Position Form Label Function Academic source
suffix -na 1.SG.OBJ first-person singular object suffix. Munro_Negatives; Stark

Framework: Haurholm-Larsen et al. — *A Grammar of Garifuna*; Stark *Person Marking*; Barchas-Lichtenstein; Munro *Negatives in Garifuna*; documented in 02_paradigms/

Example sentences (2)

  • Garifuna: Hamanatu leféin Ireini.
    Source: Garifuna Verified Sentences Corpus (community-hand-verified)
  • Garifuna: mosehamana
    Source: ELAR / SOAS Endangered Languages Archive, SG0340 — Arumahani / Abaimahani (traditional Garifuna songs). Session: Interview with Austin Rodriguez, Entrevista con Austin Rodríguez, Entrevista com Austin Rodriguez. Participant: None.
    — Source link
    — License: ELAR O_OpenAccess; attribution required; per-item license review required for pu

Cross-source corroboration (1 source)

This headword is corroborated by 1 foundation source(s); 0 are named publicly. Additional corroborators contribute to confidence scoring but are not named in this public output due to permission scope.

Academic paradigm citations (Haurholm-Larsen framework)
  • Haurholm-Larsen, S. *A Grammar of Garifuna*. Brill (2016).
  • Haurholm-Larsen, S. *Clitics, affixes, and wordhood in Garifuna*.
  • Stark, T. *Person marking in Garifuna* (Stanford).
  • Munro, P. *Negatives in Garifuna*.
  • Barchas-Lichtenstein, J. *Garifuna* (Ph.D. dissertation).
  • Cayetano, E. R. *Towards a Common Garifuna Orthography* (NGC, 1992).

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