(Meadow Mari)

NoAdjAgr

NoAdjAgr: Agreement exists, but it does not apply to adjectives, either adnominal (attributive) or predicative.

(1)üdəramaš-ənüp-šökužu.
womanGENhair3SGlong
’The woman’s hair is long.’ (Bereczki 1990: 35)

(2)üdər-wlakmotor.
girlPLpretty
’The girls are pretty.’ (T. E.)

(3)tidelümlöjeŋ
thisfamousman
’this famous man’ (T. E.)

(4)ninelümlöjeŋ-wlak
this.PLfamousmanPL
’these famous men’ (T. E.)

In Meadow Mari the grammatical category of gender does not exist, neither does an adjective, irrespective of whether it is attributive (3) or predicative (1), agree with the noun in number. Other components of the noun phrase (e.g. adnominal demonstratives) show agreement (3)–(4).

Author: Bogáta Timár


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