| Summary: | I propose a submorphemic study of the markers te, tō, tā, and nō, nā in Tahitian. The most recent studies of the Tahitian markers have been conducted within a functionalist framework (Tryon (1995), Peltzer (1996), Lazard et Peltzer (2000)), or an enunciative one (Paia & Vernaudon (1998), Paia (2001), Vernaudon (2002)), and the propositions of these linguists will provide a point of departure for this paper, which postulates a basic meaning and other, subsidiary ones for a given morpheme. However, no systematically theorized submorphemic analyses of these morphemes have been carried out, to my knowledge. Here, I attempt to conduct an analysis which takes into account 1) the consonants (t-, n-) and 2) the vowels (-a, -o, -e) in such a way as to establish a relation between a submorphemic stem concept and derived meanings in specific contexts
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