Person marking on nominal adpositions (Northern Mansi)

AdpN(PM): Person marking is optional on nominal adpositions.


(1) saša jot-e
Sasa with-3sg
‘with Sasa’ (S. D.)


(2) saša jot
Sasa with
‘with Sasa’ (S. D.)


In Northern Mansi, it is optional for postpositions to take personal suffixes, if their complements are nouns (cf. (1) and (2)) (Riese 2001).

Author: 

Szilvia Németh