(Komi-Permyak)

PredPossGen (+SpecPssd)

PredPossGen: The possessed is the functional and/or grammatical subject, the verb is intransitive, and the possessor appears in a non-locative, non-lative form (the form used to answer the question Whose?). This is often the same as the adnominal form of the possessor in possessive constructions, frequently the genitive.

+SpecPssd: The possessed appears in a special form. (For example, it may appear with a personal possessive marker.)

(1)vaśa-lönemńebög.
Vasyagenbe.prsbook
’Vasya has a book.’ (L. P.)

(2)vaśa-lönem-öśńebög-gez.
Vasyagenbe.prsplbookpl
’Vasya has books.’ (L. P.)

(3)vaśa-lönabu-öśńebög-gez.
Vasyagenneg.prsplbookpl
’Vasya doesn’t have books.’ (L. P.)

(4)(tenat)völ-iunablog.
you.genbepst.3sgplentyblog
’You had a lot of blogs.’ (L. P.)

(5)vaśa-lönezvövur(-ys).
Vasyagenneg.pst.3sgbe.cngsquirrel3sg
’Vasya did not have a squirrel.’ (L. P.)

In Komi-Permyak predicative possessive sentences the possessor is in dative case. The form of the existential verb in affirmative sentences is em in present tense (1)–(2), and völi (4) in the past. The existential verb usually agrees in number with the subject of the possessive sentence, the possessee (3). The possessee is usually unmarked (1)–(4), though occasionally it can bear possessive person marking (5) (F. Gulyás 2020, Lobanova 2017: 54–55, L. P., Ponomareva 2010: 57).

Author: Nikolett F. Gulyás


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