(Komi-Permyak)
PossAff~NonAff
PossAff~NonAff: The use of personal possessive affixes on the possessed noun is always optional, with no semantic distribution.
| (1) | nyvka-lön | ńebög |
|---|
| girl‑GEN | book |
| ‘the girl’s book’ (L. P.) |
| (2) | nyvka-lön | ki |
|---|
| girl‑GEN | hand |
| ’the girl’s hand’ (L. P.) |
| (3) | nyvka-lön | mam |
|---|
| girl‑GEN | mother |
| ’the girl’s mother’ (L. P.) |
| (4) | vaśa-lön | kok-ys | viś-ö. |
|---|
| Vasa‑GEN | leg‑3SG | hurt‑PRS.3SG |
| ’Vasa’s leg hurts’ (L. P.) |
| (5) | sylön | kerku |
|---|
| (s)he.GEN | house |
| ’his/her house’ (L. P.) |
| (6) | sylön | kerku-ys |
|---|
| (s)he.GEN | house‑3SG |
| ’his/her house’ (L. P.) |
| (7) | sylön | ki |
|---|
| (s)he.GEN | hand |
| ’his/her hand’ (L. P.) |
| (8) | sylön | ki-ys |
|---|
| (s)he.GEN | hand‑3SG |
| ’his/her hand’ (L. P.) |
In Komi-Permyak possessive constructions the possessor always has to be in genitive case. There is usually no possessive suffix on the possessee, irrespective of whether the possessor is nominal (1)–(3) or pronominal (5)–(7). The form of the possessor does not depend on the semantic properties of the possessee. The possessive suffix can optionally appear on the possessee: it usually but not obligatorily does so in possessives with certain types of inalienable possession, e.g. some body parts (4), (8) (cf. Rédei 1978: 61, Bartens 2000: 122, Ponomareva 2010: 56–61, F. Gulyás et al. 2018). Further research is needed to work out the details.
Author: Nikolett F. Gulyás
[🠐 back]
