(Meadow Mari)

PP=Dem

PP=Dem: Third-person personal pronouns are not distinguished from demonstrative pronouns.

(1)tudopulemet-əmuž-ən.
(s)hemachine_gunACCseePST2.3SG
’(S)he saw the machine gun.’ (Four Battles Corpus)

(2)tudorvezemarijkńiga-mlud-eš.
thatboyMaribookACCread3SG
’That boy is reading a Mari book.’ (Riese et al. 2022: 137)

In Mari, third person singular and plural personal pronouns have the same form as distal demonstratives (Riese et al. 2022: 137).

Author: Bogáta Timár


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