(Udmurt)

NoAdjCase & CaseAdjAff

NoAdjCase: Case is not marked on adnominal adjectives.

CaseAdjAff: Case is marked on adnominal adjectives using suffixes.

(1)jegitnyl-jos-yn
younggirlPLINSCOM
’with young girls’ (Y. S.)

(2)jegit-jos-yn-yznyl-jos-yn
youngPLINSCOMDETgirlPLINSCOM
‘with the young girls’ (Csúcs 1990: 43)

In Udmurt case is marked on adnominal adjectives only when the adjective has a determinative suffix, cf. (1) vs. (2) (Csúcs 1990: 43, Kozmács 2001: 33, Winkler 2001: 40). The case affixes appearing on such adjectives are suffixes (2).

Author: Erika Asztalos


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