Case marking on personal pronouns (Surgut Khanty)

PPAff: Case is marked on personal pronouns using suffixes.


The declension of singular persnal pronouns (I, you, he/she/it)

Cases

1sg

2sg

3sg

Nom.

nüŋ

ʌüw

Acc.

mānt

nüŋat

ʌüwat

Dat.

māntem

nüŋati

ʌüwati

Lat.

māntema

nüŋatina

ʌüwata

Loc.

mānə

nüŋnə

nüŋatinə

ʌüwnə

ʌüwatinə

Abl.

māntemi

nüŋatiji

ʌüwatiji

Appr.

māntemnam

nüŋatinam

ʌüwatinam

Transl.

māntemɣə

nüŋatinɣə

ʌüwatiɣə

Instr-Fin.

māntemat

nüŋatinat

ʌüwatiɣat

Com-Instr.

māntemnat

nüŋatinat

ʌüwatinat

Abess.

māntemʌəɣ

nüŋatinʌəɣ

ʌüwatiʌəɣ

(based on Honti 1977: 275–276. és Csepregi 1998: 24–25.)


Personal pronouns in the lat, loc, apr, tra, ins-fin, com-instr and abe cases take the same suffixes which are used with nouns. Compared to the noun declension paradigm, the paradigm of pronouns is more extensive: they also have accusative and dative cases. The suffix of the accusative is -t, and the dative is formed by attaching the appropriate personal affix (Px) to the accusative stem. In the remaining part of the pronominal paradigm the case-marking suffixes are attached to the dative stem (except for the loc). The affixation of the personal pronoun shows some subdialectal variation in Surgut Khanty.

Author: 

Márta Csepregi