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Pertensive marking is to head-marking languages what possessive marking is to dependent-marking languages.[1] For example, English, a dependent-marking language has a person's rodent, where the head is rodent and the possessive marking is on the dependent person's. In contrast, Shilluk has a pertensive affix on the head (e.g., dúup = "rodent", dû́uup = "rodent belonging to").[2] Other languages with pertensive marking are Nungon,[3] Hungarian, Mansi, and Khanty.[4] Some languages, such as Martuthunira employ both possessive and pertensive marking.[5]

The term was coined by Dixon in 2011.[6]

References

  1. ^ Matthews, P. H. (2014-05-22), "'pertensive'", The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics, Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acref/9780199675128.001.0001/acref-9780199675128-e-3820, ISBN 978-0-19-967512-8, retrieved 2021-01-18
  2. ^ Remijsen, Bert; Ayoker, Otto Gwado (2017). "Shilluk noun morphology and noun phrase morphosyntax". Research gate.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  3. ^ Sarvasy, Hannah S. (2017-01-01). Grammatical Relation-Marking Postpositions. Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-34010-7.
  4. ^ Abondolo, Daniel (2017-05-10). "Uralic Languages". Oxford Handbooks Online. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199935345.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199935345-e-6. Retrieved 2021-01-18.
  5. ^ "Possession in Martuthunira - Oxford Scholarship". oxford.universitypressscholarship.com. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199660223.001.0001/acprof-9780199660223-chapter-5. Retrieved 2021-01-18.
  6. ^ Dixon, R.M.W. (2011). Basic Linguistic Theory – Volume 2: Grammatical Topics. OUP.