Marking of possessor and A and/or S with the same set of affixes

[Martin Haspelmath]

The classic reference on this is:

Siewierska, Anna. 1998. On nominal and verbal person marking. 
/Linguistic Typology/ 2(1). 1–56.

She examines a world-wide sample of 157 languages and finds that 83% of 
the languages with person indexes on both nouns and verbs have "some 
degree of phonemic correspondence between the two sets of forms". 
Similarity of possessor indexes with A indexes and with P indexes is 
about equally common.

Two earlier important references are:

Allen, W. Sidney. 1963. Transitivity and possession. /Language/ 40. 337–343.
Seiler, Hansjakob. 1983. Possessivity, subject and object. /Studies in 
Language/ 7. 89–117.

Greetings,
Martin

On 19.03.14 18:25, Francoise Rose wrote:
>
> Dear Jorge,
>
> This is in fact quite frequent, due to the similar origin of possessor 
> indexes and argument indexes in the same set of independent pronominals.
>
> Dixon and Aikhenvald (1999) state about Amazonian languages that "the 
> bound pronominal forms marking a possessor within an NP are typically 
> the same as one of the bound pronominal paradigms for marking core 
> arguments of a clause."
>
> Possessor may be indexed like P (Tupi-Guarani, Jê, Cf. Emerillon 
> examples below), or like A (Arawak, cf. Mojeño examples below).
>
> Emérillon (Tupi-Guarani, French Guyana)
>
> (1)*/a-/*/nupã/
>
> 1sg.*I*-hit
>
>             'I hit him.'
>
> (2)zawa‰ *e-*su¿u
>
> dog        1sg.*II*-bite
>
>             'A dog bit me.'
>
> (3)*e-*men
>
> 1sg.*II*-husband
>
>             'my husband'
>
> Mojeño Trinitario (Arawak, Bolivia)
>
> (4)*n-*echjiko-'e
>
>             1sg-talk.to-2pl
>
>             'I am talking to you.'
>
> (5)a-jañok*-nu*-yre
>
> 2pl-watch.over-1sg-fut
>
> 'You will watch over me.'
>
> (6)*n-*ousa
>
>   1sg-village
>
>             'my village'
>
> The pattern you are interested in is found throughout the Arawak family.
>
> Best,
>
> Françoise
>
> *De :*Discussion List for ALT 
> [mailto:LINGTYP at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG] *De la part de* Jorge 
> Emilio Rosés Labrada
> *Envoyé :* mercredi 19 mars 2014 17:07
> *À :* LINGTYP at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG
> *Objet :* Marking of possessor and A and/or S with the same set of affixes
>
>
> Dear everyone,
>
> Mako [wpc] employs the same set of affixes to mark the possessor on 
> the possessed noun (See example (1) below) and to mark the A and the S 
> on the verb (See examples (2) and (3) below). I was wondering if you 
> were familiar with other languages that share this feature (i.e., same 
> set of markers for nominal possession and verbal subject marking) and 
> could let me know. I am particularly interested in Amazonian languages 
> (especially languages from the North West Amazon) but information on 
> any language will be most welcome.
>
> Thanks in advance for your help. Best,
>
> Jorge
>
>
> 1) *ʧɨ-bahale*
>
> *1sg-eye*
>
> *'my eye'
>
> 2) ileka      ʧɨ-kɨkɨd-obe*
>
> *cassava  1sg-dry-TAM*
>
> *    'I dry cassava'
>
> 3) ʧɨ̃-hãmat-obe*
>
> *1sg-stand_up-TAM*
>
> *     'I stand up/get up'*
>
> -- 
> Jorge Emilio Rosés Labrada
> PhD candidate & Vanier Canada Graduate Scholar
> Department of French Studies (Linguistics)
> University of Western Ontario
>

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