Person marking on non­personal pronominal adpositions (Hungarian)

AdpPNonPM: Person marking cannot be expressed on non­personal pronominal adpositions.


(1) valaki mellett

somebody next_to

‘next to somebody’


(2) ezen kívül

this-sup beside

‘beside this’


In Hungarian, postpositions with non-personal pronominal complements (e.g. indefinite pronouns (1) or determiners (2)) cannot take personal suffixes (cf. Balogh 2000c, Dér 2012).

Author: 

Nikolett F. Gulyás