(Meadow Mari)

VMkA & DepMkO

VMkA: The agent is not marked as such, but it is marked on the verb. (Agreement is shown only with the unmarked agent.)

DepMkO: The patient is marked as such; it is not marked on the verb.

(1)atəjiktaž-mogajgazet-əmnal-atmo?
andyouPCLkindnewspaperACCbuy2SGQ
’And do you buy any kind of newspaper?’ (Alhoniemi 1985: 93)

(2)ljudmilamelna-mküešt-eš.
LyudmilapancakeACCfry3SG
’Lyudmila is making pancakes.’ (T. E.)

In Meadow Mari agents are not marked, morphological marking appears on the verb. Patients are marked without any marking appearing on the verb (1)─(2) (Riese et al. 2022: 72).

Author: Bogáta Timár


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