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locativize en · VERB

Etymology

From locative + -ize.

Meanings

1. To convert to a locative form.
   • 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:
   • 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:
   • -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:
   • […] (the Ateso prefix o- locativizes the noun). 1959, Anthropological Linguistics, page 375:
   • 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:
   • 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:

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