Order of case and possessive affixation (Hungarian)

WPxCx: The morpheme order is as follows: root, possessive affix, case affix.


(1) ablak-om-ba

window-1sg-ill

’into my window’


(2) kez-ed-ben

‘hand-2sg-ine

’in your hands’


(3) tőlem

I.abl

’from me’


The possessive suffix precedes the case-marker suffix in Hungarian when they are attached to noun phrases. Historically, the oblique case forms of personal pronouns (Kenesei et al. 1998: 270‒271), as well as personal affixes on postpositions bear witness to a case suffix + possessive suffix (such as -től ablative case marker + -em first person singular suffix) morpheme order (D. Mátai 2003a: 212‒216).

Author: 

Nikolett F. Gulyás