(Meadow Mari)

AdjNotNMorph

AdjNotNMorph: Attributive adjectives are distinct from nouns in their morphological behavior; while nouns show inflection for categories such as number, case, and gender, attributive adjectives do not.

(1)peškugučodra-škə
verybigforestILL
’into a very big forest’ (Bereczki 1990: 38)

(2)kugəzatə-lane-et,jolagaj-lanüdər-əmokpu.
tzaryouDAT2SGlazyDATgirlACCNEG.3SGgive
’The tzar is not giving you a girl, you lazy thing.’ (Alhoniemi 1985: 42)

In Meadow Mari nouns appear with number, person, and case suffixes. Attributive adjectives do not have matching inflectional properties except when used appositively after the noun.

Author: Bogáta Timár


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