(Komi-Permyak)
AdjNotNMorph
AdjNotNMorph: Attributive adjectives are distinct from nouns in their morphological behavior; while nouns show inflection for categories such as number, case, and gender, attributive adjectives do not.
| (1) | basök | ʒ́oriʒ́ |
|---|
| nice | flower |
| ’nice flower’ (Ponomareva 2010: 52) |
| (2) | basök | ʒ́oriʒ́-ʒ́ez |
|---|
| nice | flower‑PL |
| ’nice flowers’ (Ponomareva 2010: 52) |
| (3) | basök-öś | ʒ́oriʒ́-ʒ́ez |
|---|
| nice‑PL | flower‑PL |
| ’nice flowers’ (Ponomareva 2010: 52) |
| (4) | basök | ʒ́oriʒ́-lö |
|---|
| nice | flower‑DAT |
| ’to a nice flower’ (L. P.) |
| (5) | basök | ʒ́oriʒ́-ʒ́ez-lö |
|---|
| nice | flower‑PL‑DAT |
| ’to nice flowers’ (L. P.) |
| (6) | basök-öś | ʒ́oriʒ́-ʒ́ez-lö |
|---|
| nice‑PL | flower‑PL‑DAT |
| ’to nice flowers’ (L. P.) |
Komi-Permyak attributive adjectives typically do not agree with the head noun (1), (2). Occasionally – presumably due to Russian influence (Ponomareva 2010) – optional number agreement is possible (3). Attributive adjectives, however, are never case marked (4)–(6), consequently, attributive adjectives are not nouns in this language.
Author: Nikolett F. Gulyás
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