z. SANDBOX: *BOIE’NEN VERBAL / ASPECTUAL / VOICE PARADIGM Template
BOIE’NEN VERBAL / ASPECTUAL / VOICE PARADIGM
| FUNCTION | FORMULA | FORM | GLOSS |
| Root | ROOT | ribok | noise; disturbance; quarrel; trouble |
| Actor Focus Future / Infinitive | mag- + ROOT | magribok | to make noise; create disturbance; quarrel |
| Actor Focus Progressive | ni- + ROOT | niribok | presently making noise; causing trouble |
| Actor Focus Perfective (OM-family) | (R) + -omin- + (R)IBOK | rominibok | made noise; caused trouble; quarreled |
| Actor Focus Perfective (MAG-family) | nag- + ROOT | nagribok’ | became noisy; caused trouble |
| Patient Focus Future / Infinitive | ROOT + -en | riboken | disturb; trouble; quarrel over |
| Patient Focus Progressive | ni- + ROOT + -en | niriboken | will be making noise; will cause trouble |
| Patient Focus Contemplated | mi- + ROOT + -en | miriboken | will disturb; will trouble |
| Patient Focus Prospective | RI + ROOT + -en | riribokon | will be disturbed; become the subject of conflict |
| Patient Focus Imperative | ROOT + -i | riboki | make noise on; disturb |
| Affected-Participant Focus Future / Infinitive | ROOT + -an | ribokan | disturb a place or person; bring conflict upon; quarrel over |
| Affected-Participant Focus Perfective | (R)+-in-+(R)IBOK + -an | rinibokan | was disturbed by noise; came under dispute |
| Affected-Participant Focus Progressive | pi- + ROOT + -an | piribokan | actively disputing; quarreling over |
| Instrument Noun | pang- + ROOT | pangribok | means or source of disturbance |
| Causative Noun | pa- + ROOT | paribok | something causing noise or conflict |
| Agent Noun | para- + ROOT | pararibok | one who habitually causes disturbance |
| Habitual Agent | para- + pa- + ROOT | paraparibok | troublemaker; agitator; rabble-rouser |
| Iterative | pa- + ROOT + ROOT | paribokribok | repeatedly make noise; repeatedly cause disturbances |
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EXTENDED DERIVATIONS
| FUNCTION | FORM | GLOSS |
| Progressive Habitual Affected-Participant | pipararibokan | place, person, or thing continually disturbed by noise or repeatedly involved in conflict |
| Resultative | napagpararibokan | had already become repeatedly disturbed; had already become a continuing source or object of conflict |
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RELATED NOMINAL DERIVATIVES
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MORPHOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS
Semantic Core
RIBOK denotes disruptive disturbance, whether expressed as sound, social conflict, behavioral troublemaking, or public commotion.
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Actor Focus
Actor-focus forms profile the initiator of the disturbance.
Examples:
- magribok
- niribok
- rominibok
- nagribok’
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Patient Focus
Patient-focus forms profile the entity directly affected by the disturbance.
Examples:
- riboken
- miriboken
- niriboken
- riribokon
Notably, niribok (“presently making noise or causing trouble”) contrasts with niriboken, which in your corpus has developed a future-oriented patient-focused reading (“will be making noise” or “will cause trouble”), an aspectual distinction that merits separate treatment in the Boie’nen grammar.
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Affected-Participant Focus (-an)
The suffix -an is better analyzed as an Affected-Participant Focus rather than a purely locative suffix. It marks the place, person, object, issue, or circumstance upon which the disturbance is directed.
Examples:
- ribokan
- rinibokan
- piribokan
- pipararibokan
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Derivational Productivity
The ribok family exemplifies one of the defining characteristics of Boie’nen morphology: a single lexical root expands through productive aspectual, voice, participant-focus, nominal, causative, agentive, and iterative derivations while preserving a coherent semantic nucleus. Similar productive semantic networks are observed in tobo’, toga’, ta-ed / te-ed, and the specialized agricultural verb system, making ribok an exemplary model of Boie’nen’s rich derivational morphology.