Case marking on demonstratives (Hungarian)

DemAff: Case is marked on demonstratives using suffixes.


(1) kedvel-em ez-t a zené-t.

like-prs.obj.1sg dem-acc the music-acc

’I like this music.’


(2) er-re a könyv-re gondol-t-ál?

det-sub the book-sub think-pst-2sg

’Did you have this book in mind?’


In Hungarian, adnominal demonstrative pronouns agree in case (and in number) with their noun heads (cf. Kugler‒Laczkó 2000: 165‒168).

Author: 

Nikolett F. Gulyás