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

[Martin Kümmel]

Another example from Europe:

 

Possessive markers (left) in Hungarian are very similar to the S/A markers in the „objective/definite“ conjugation (right) used with definite objects,

 

cf. 1s –Om / -Om

2s –Od / -Od

3s –(j)A / -jA

1p –Unk / -jUk

2p –OtOk /-jAAtOk

3p  -(j)Uk / -jAAk

 

It looks as if the “definite” conjugation markers are made of “something else” + possessive/personal suffixes.

 

Best,

 

Martin

 

 

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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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