Case exponence (Surgut Khanty)

ExpMono: Formatives marking nouns and pronouns are monoexponential.


(1a) qɔ̄t ‘house’


(1b) qɔ̄t-nə

house-loc

’in the house’


(1c) qɔ̄t-ət-nə

house-pl-loc

‘in the houses’


(1d) qɔ̄t-ʌ-am-nə

house-pl-1sg-loc

’in my houses’


(2a) tēmi ’this’


(2b) tēmi-nat

this-com

‘with this’


(2c) tēmi-ɣən-nat

this-du-com

’with these two’


(3a) mā ’I’


(3b) mān-t

I-acc

’me’


(3c) mān-t-em

I-acc-1sg

’me’


(2d) mān-t-em-a

én-acc-1sg-lat

’to me’


In Surgut Khanty, the same cases are marked on nominals and pronominal determiners, and case is coded by suffixes. Number is marked by a different morpheme. Pronouns can take the same case-marking suffixes as nouns, but they are not attached to the nominal stem. The structure of pronouns is stem+acc+Px, where the Px is coreferent with the number and person of the pronoun.

Author: 

Márta Csepregi