Case exponence (Hungarian)

ExpMono: Formatives marking nouns and pronouns are monoexponential.


(1) asztal

‘table’


(2) asztal-ok

table-pl

’tables’


(3) asztal-on

table-sup

’on the table’


(4) asztal-ok-on

table-pl-sup

’on the tables’


Case-marking suffixes are monoexponential in Hungarian, as they do not reflect number or verbal categories (e.g. TAM) (cf.  Kiefer 2003: 200‒211, Kenesei et al. 1998: 191‒231).

Author: 

Nikolett F. Gulyás