Case agreement on noun adjuncts (Hungarian)

NoNXCaseAgr: There is no case agreement between head nouns and their adjuncts in general.


(1) nyelvész ismerős-öm

linguist acquaintance-1sg

’my linguist friend’


(2) nyelvész ismerős-öm-nek

linguist acquaintance-1sg-dat

’to my linguist friend’


(3) nyelvész ismerős-öm-től

linguist acquaintance-1sg-abl

’from my linguist friend’


Noun adjuncts do not take neither grammatical (2), nor spatial cases (3) (cf. Balogh 2000b: 444‒448, Kenesei et al. 1998: 330‒331).

Author: 

Nikolett F. Gulyás