(Meadow Mari)

PP=Dem

PP=Dem: There is no distinction between third-person personal pronouns and demonstrative pronouns.

(1)tudoüdərtidemarijdenevenčajalt-ənogəl.
thatgirlthismanwithlive_in_marriagePST2.CNGNEG.3SG
’That girl was not married to this man.’ (Alhoniemi 1985: 85)

(2)mijtuško,tevetudotuštoil-a.
go.IMP.2SGthat_waysee(s)hetherelive3SG
’Go that way, that’s where (s)he lives.’ (Arkhangelskiy 2019)

In the system of Mari personal pronouns, third person singular and plural forms have been substituted by demonstratives. Traces of the original personal pronoun beginning with s- are discernible in the respective forms of the possessive paradigm, and, in a number of moods, verbal inflection, cf. Bereczki 2002: 70.

Author: Bogáta Timár


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