Person marking on case affixes (Hungarian)

CxPMOptPP: Person marking can occur on case affixes as roots and may be accompanied by an explicit pronoun, which serves as an intensifier.



Sg1

Sg1 intensifier

Sg3

Sg3

intensifier

Nom.

én ‘I’

ő ‘he/she/it’

Acc.

engem(et) ‘me’

őt ‘him/her/it’

Dat.

nek-em

‘for/to me’

én-nek-em

‘for/to me’

nek-i

‘for/to him/her/it’

ő-nek-i

‘for/to him/her/it’

Ine.

benn-em

‘in me’

én-benn-em

‘in me’

benn-e

‘in him/her/it’

ő-ben-ne

‘in him/her/it’

Abl.

től-em

‘from me’

én-től-em

‘from me’

től-e

‘from him/her/it’

ő-től-e

‘from him/her/it’


In Hungarian, except for the nominative and the accusative, case-marked personal pronouns are formed by attaching person affixes to the case marking suffixes used as roots. The nominative form of the personal pronoun can extend these compositional forms in an emphatic function: e.g. tőlem ‘from me’ ­ éntőlem ‘from me’ (D. Mátai 2003a: 212‒216).

Author: 

Nikolett F. Gulyás