Number of non-personal pronominal cases (Synja Khanty)

3NonpronCases: The non-personal pronominal case system has 3 cases.


Case

‘this’

‘that’

‘this, that’

Nominative

tami

tumi

śit

Locative

tami-jǝn

tumi-jǝn

śit-n

Lative

tami-ja

tumi-ja

śit-a

(Onina 2009: 31)


In Synja Khanty, the non-personal pronouns can take the same cases as nouns, whereas personal pronouns have a different case paradigm (cf. Onina 2009). Non-personal pronouns can take the following cases: nominative, locative, and lative.

Author: 

Nikolett F. Gulyás