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locativize

locativize verb: to convert to a locative form.

Verb

locativize (third-person singular simple present locativizes, present participle locativizing, simple past and past participle locativized)

  1. To convert to a locative form.
    • […] (the Ateso prefix o- locativizes the noun).1959, Anthropological Linguistics, page 375
    • -co is a morpheme that, taking the place of the absolutive nominal suffix, locativizes noun stems.1988, Linguistic Change & Contact: Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Conference on New Ways of Analyzing Variation, page 138

Examples of locativize in a sentence

  • As in the Deictic Pronoun Locative Construction, in the Definite Reference Locative Construction, the verbal stem is locativized by the encliticization of the Locative Marker onto the verbal stem.1991, Lawrence Richard Morgan, A Description of the Kutenai Language, page 454:
  • In most Bantu languages many nouns can be locativized by recategorizing them in a locative class.2008, Derek Nurse, Tense and Aspect in Bantu, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 289:
  • Nouns belonging to Classes 1, la, 2, 2a and 6 (signifying people) are locativized by replacing the initial vowel of the noun with the locative prefix ku-, for example: […]2010, Arnett Wilkes, Nikolias Nkosi, Complete Zulu, Teach Yourself, published 2014, →ISBN:

Forms of locativize

third-person singular presentlocativizes
present participlelocativizing
past participlelocativized
pastlocativized

Origin of locativize

From locative + -ize.

Questions about locativize

What does locativize mean?
Locativize means to convert to a locative form.
How do you use locativize in a sentence?
As in the Deictic Pronoun Locative Construction, in the Definite Reference Locative Construction, the verbal stem is locativized by the encliticization of the Locative Marker onto the verbal stem.
What part of speech is locativize?
Locativize is a verb.
What is the past tense of locativize?
The past tense of locativize is locativized.

Words near locativize in the dictionary

  1. locative cases
  2. locative-qualitative case
  3. locative-qualitative cases
  4. locatively
  5. locatives
  6. locativize
  7. locativized
  8. locativizes
  9. locativizing
  10. locator
  11. locator map

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