locativize

present singular third person locativizes · participle present locativizing · participle past locativized · past locativized

1. grammarTo convert to a locative form.

   […] (the Ateso prefix o- locativizes the noun).

   1959, Anthropological Linguistics, page 375

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   -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

   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

   Again there are two acceptable ways of locativizing a class 5 nominal.

   1997, Studies in African Linguistics, page 186

   Normally, these nouns would be locativized by means of the locative suffix -ng, but it would seem that some uneasiness exists regarding the use of this suffix to locativize neologisms, specifically terms, regardless of whether these are loanwords/adoptives from English or Afrikaans, or existing Northern Sotho words (the semantic content of which has been adapted to designate new concepts).

   2006, Linguistics, page 182

   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