Marking of function S on nouns (Surgut Khanty)

Neutr: Case alignment is neutral: the functions S, A, and P are not marked morphologically.


(1) ńēwrem jīs-əʌ.

child cry-prs.3sg

‘The child is crying.’


(2) āŋki ńēwrem-əʌ ʌāpət-ʌ.

mother child-3sg feed-prs.3sg

‘The mother is feeding his/her child.’


In Surgut Khanty, nominal and pronominal S’s are marked by a zero morpheme, which means that they are in the nominative case (1). In the case of nominal arguments, the case distribution is neutral (2).

Author: 

Márta Csepregi