(Komi-Permyak)

Suf(DN)(V)

Suf(DN)(V): A special suffix, or special suffixes, can attach to the stem only within verbal heads.

(1)akań-ńe-söteć-a-mvit-önkorobka-ez-a-s.
dollPLACC.3SGputPRS1PLfiveINSboxPLILL3SG
’We put five dolls into each box.’ (L. P.)

(2)mikovdasašavij-i-sökuimutka-ön.
MikovandSashakillPST3PLthreeduckINS
’Mikov and Sasha killed three ducks each.’ (L. P.)

(3)kuim-nan-nym
threeCOL1PL
’the three of us’ (Batalova 2002: 78)

(4)kuim-nankukań-ys
threeCOLcalf3SG
’all the three calves’ (Batalova 2002: 78)

Komi-Permyak uses distributive numerals only as verbal complements and marks them with the instrumental -ön suffix (1). Modifiers of nominals with this function have nominative case (2) (L. P.). The morpheme -nan is a so-called collective numeral deriving suffix (3)–(4), which marks the items bearing it as members of a certain group (Ponomareva 2010: 217–218, Batalova 2002: 78).

Author: Nikolett F. Gulyás


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