6.2 Verbal derivation

The inflectional affixes are added not only to roots (forms containing no other affixes) but also to derived bases (forms containing further affixes). The productive affixes which are added to roots to form bases which in turn may have inflectional affixes added to them are -ay, -an, pa-, paN-, ka-, hi-, ha-, hiN-, pakig-, paki-, panggi-, pani-, paniN-. These affixes are given entries in the dictionary and exemplified there.

When the active inflectional affixes are added to verb bases which contain some of these derivative prefixes, they undergo morphophonemic alternations as shown in the following chart:

together with prefix ni- (mi-, ning-) becomes mu- becomes

paN- naN- maN-

pakig- nakig- makig-

paniN- naniN- maniN-

pani- nani- mani-

panggi- nanggi- manggi-

These affixes are given entries and defined there.