(Meadow Mari)

AdjNotVMorph

AdjNotVMorph: Adjectives are distinct from verbs in their morphological and syntactic behavior.

(1)kožkeŋežəm-atteləm-atužarge.
sprucein_summeralsoin_winteralsogreen
’A spruce is green in summer as well as in winter (Bereczki 2002: 60)

(2)kož-wlakkeŋežəm-atteləm-atužargeli-ən-ət.
fenyőPLsummeralsowinteralsogreenCOPPST23PL
’The spruces were green in summer as well as in winter.’ (T. E.)

In Meadow Mari verbs agree with the subject in person and number, and they take suffixes expressing tense, polarity and evidentiality. Adjectives do not have verbal properties either in attributive or predicative function.

Author: Bogáta Timár


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