AdnDem=DeclPronDem: Adnominal and pronominal demonstratives have identical stems, but they differ in their inflection (for example, the existence or type of agreement).
The declension paradigm of the demonstrative pronoun tami ’this’
Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | tami | tame-ŋǝn | tame-t |
Lative | tami-ja | tame-ŋǝn-a | tame-t-a |
Locative | tami-jǝn | tame-ŋǝn-ǝŋ | tame-t-ǝn |
(Onina 2009: 31)
(1) mā tam wɔ̄š-n ūl-l-əm.
I this town-loc live-prs-1sg
’I live in this town.’ (Onina 2009: 50)
Pronominal demonstrative pronouns (1) take the same case-marking suffixes as nouns in Synya Khanty (cf. Onina 2009: 31, Nikolaeva 1999a: 16). In the adnominal function (2), however, they cannot get suffixes.