Sesotho Morphological Profile

[Dem92] [DM67]

Verb affix template for Sesotho (Southern Sotho, ISO sot), from the reference grammars [Dem92] and [DM67].

Prefixes (word-edge inward): subject agreement, negation, tense/aspect/mood, object agreement.

Suffixes (stem-outward): a valence-changing inner layer (reversive, causative, neuter, applicative, completive), then voice (reciprocal, passive), then tense (perfect -il-), mood (imperative/subjunctive/indicative), and a final interrogative/relative (nonfinite) slot.

def Sesotho.verbAffixTemplate : Morphology.AffixTemplate

Sesotho verb affix template ([Dem92], [DM67]). The suffix slots run stem-outward; the prefix slots run word-edge inward.

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