Marking of intermediate grammatical number on personal pronouns (Northern Mansi)

SyntFlexPP: PPs have a synthetic stem (i.e., the morphological expression of number and person occurs simultaneously), and the expression of different numbers within the same person displays internal flexion.



Sg

Du

Pl

  1. person

am

mēn

mān

  1. person

naŋ

nēn

nān

  1. person

taw

tēn

tān

[based on Kálmán (1976)]



In Northern Mansi, the first person plural forms can be regarded as suppletive forms. Dual personal pronouns, which are typically compared to their plural equivalents, are formed by inflecting the stem, since only the vowel quality distinguishes the plural and the dual forms of the relevant pronouns.

Author: 

Szilvia Németh