Consonant My dog My [consonant noun] Background concepts: Consonants and vowels, understanding versus vowel morphemes final stems gal- ek General: – alternating dog-my Almost all suffixes in Victorian Aboriginal Languages have suffixes (consonant final noun- alternating trial that depend on whether the stem is vowel initial suffix) consonant final or vowel final. My [vowel final noun] Grammatical: My hip Consonant final stems take vowel initial suffixes. Mulangek Vowel final stems take consonant initial suffixes. Mula-ngek Hip- my final initial suffix) Possessive My dog My dog Background concepts: Understanding morphemes; first (poss) suffix galek person (I), second person (you) and third person (he, she, it); on nouns: gal- ek singular number 1st person dog-my General: This is the introduction to possessive suffixes on nouns. singular (my) Reinforce that possessive suffixes attach to not – belonging to verbs. me You could start with the first person singular only, that is, as in dog’, to introduce possession. ‘my’, ‘my Grammatical: Morphemes should be clearly identified. Possession is shown by the addition of a suffix to the end of the noun that is owned, not to the owner. In English, we use a separate word, ie, (see example ‘my’ in column 2).
Consonant versus vowel final stems – alternating suffixes My dog gal- ek dog-my (consonant final noun- vowel initial suffix) My hip Mulangek Mula-ngek Hip- my final initial suffix) My [consonant noun] My [vowel final noun] Background concepts: Consonants and vowels, understanding morphemes General: Almost all suffixes in Victorian Aboriginal Languages have alternating that depend on whether the stem is consonant final or vowel final. Grammatical: Consonant final stems take vowel initial suffixes. Vowel final stems take consonant initial suffixes. Possessive (poss) suffix on nouns: 1st person singular (my) – belonging to me My dog galek gal- ek dog-my My dog Background concepts: Understanding morphemes; first person (I), second person (you) and third person (he, she, it); singular number General: This is the introduction to possessive suffixes on nouns. Reinforce that possessive suffixes attach to not verbs. You could start with the first person singular only, that is, ‘my’, as in ‘my dog’, to introduce possession. Grammatical: Morphemes should be clearly identified. Possession is shown by the addition of a suffix to the end of the noun that is owned, not to the owner. In English, we use a separate word, ie, ‘my’ (see example in column 2). trial