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

[Anvita Abbi]

Jarawa, the language spoken in the Andaman Islands behaves the same way.
1)

*mi *

*č**a**ɖɖ**a*



1poss

hut



My hut.
  2)

*mi *

*ih-ita*

1

3-eat

I ate that (food).


3)

*mi*

*allema-hə*



1

come-hyp



I will come.

(Pramod Kumar 2012. *Dscriptive and Typological Study of Jarawa*. Ph.D.
thesis)

Anvita Abbi


On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 9:37 PM, Jorge Emilio Rosés Labrada <jrosesla at uwo.ca
> wrote:

>
> 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-k**ɨk*
> *ɨd-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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Prof. Anvita Abbi
Centre for Linguistics
School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies
Jawaharlal Nehru University
New Delhi 110067
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