(Komi-Permyak)
AdjNotVMorph
AdjNotVMorph: Adjectives are distinct from verbs in their morphological and syntactic behavior.
| (1) | estön | bydm-ö | vylyn | pu. |
|---|
| here | grow‑PRS.3SG | tall | tree |
| ’A tall tree is growing here.’ (L. P.) |
| (2) | estön | bydm-öny | vylyn | pu-ez. |
|---|
| here | grow‑PRS.3PL | tall | tree‑PL |
| ’Tall trees are growing here.’ (L. P.) |
| (3) | estön | bydm-i-sö | vylyn | pu-ez. |
|---|
| here | grow‑PST‑3PL | tall | tree‑PL |
| ’Tall trees were growing here.’ (L. P.) |
| (4) | ʒ́oriʒ́ | basök. |
|---|
| flower | nice |
| ’The flower is nice.’ (Ponomareva 2010: 52) |
| (5) | ʒ́oriʒ́-ʒ́ez | basök-öś. |
|---|
| flower‑PL | nice‑PL |
| ’The flowers are nice.’ (Ponomareva 2010: 52) |
| (6) | ʒ́oriʒ́-ʒ́ez | basök-öś | völ-i-sö. |
|---|
| flower‑PL | nice‑PL | COP‑PST‑3PL |
| ’The flowers were nice.’ (L. P.) |
Komi-Permyak verbs agree with their subjects in person and number(1)– (2), and are marked for tense (3), mood, evidentiality and polarity (Batalova 2002: 96–113). Predicative adjectives, however, agree with the subject only in number (4), (5), and cannot express tense without a copula (Rédei 1978: 64, Ponomareva 2010).
Author: Nikolett F. Gulyás
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