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geureub'um* reubah-1ih 'he suddenly fell with the
sound "geureub'um"'
This chapter has treated four parts of speech: nouns,
verbs, adjectives and adverbs, with the focus on their
derivations. The affixes used to derive nouns are the infix
-eun-. the prefixes beuranqka- and sa-. Verbs can be derived
with six prefixes and an infix. The prefixes are meu-. peu-.
teu-. tu-. ai-, and ceu-. and the infix is -sum-. In
addition to this, pronominal prefixes are also used to form
verbs. Three forms of affixes are used to derive adjectives:
men-, tsu-, and mey-,,,-eun-
Some of the points discussed here are very important
for later discussions in other chapters. The discussion on
pronouns and their bound forms is important for the
understanding of how agreement works in Acehnese and the
idea of subject or agent cliticization. These both are
discussed in Chapter 4. The subsection on the constraints on
pronoun ordering is closely related to the discussion given
in 3.4 of Chapter 3. Titles, measure nouns, classifiers and
measure phrases are very common elements found in Acehnese
sentences; they are parts of noun phrases discussed in
Chapter 3. Therefore, special subsections have been devoted
to treating them in this chapter.
For the discussion on the agreement system, which is