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nie omüi
larücü |
‘women’s college/school’ |
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dzü-khe
dzü |
‘well-water’ |
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ive khena |
‘animals of the forest’ |
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korü kho |
‘river fish’ |
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oracüe ovu |
‘stars (in)
the sky’ |
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The genitive expressed by juxtaposition has a determiner
function. As indicated earlier one of the meanings the genitive
expresses viz. alienable possession may be morphologically
marked. When it is, it can funciton as a full-fledged noun
phrase and can therefore occur as a subject, predicate and
be followed by case markers. The marker is -zhü.
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1. |
a-zhü1
zhüe2 |
mine1
is good 2 |
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2. |
hihi1
ata-zhü2 -koe
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this1
(is) ours (excl. prn. & excl. pl.)2
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3. |
lopüi-hi1
azhü2 -koe |
she1
(is) mine2 |
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4.
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pfota-zhü1
duno2 |
for2
theirs (excl. pl.)1
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5. |
pfo-zhü 1
lino2 |
into2
his1 |
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6. |
azhü1-likhi2
ho3
-sho4 |
don’t4
put3 into2
mine1 |
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-zhü could be added to any noun-pronoun, common
noun, proper noun, deverbal noun.
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sg. . |
du |
pl. |
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a-zhü ‘mine’ |
ahi)-zhü
(excl. du.) |
nile&khrumüi-zhü |
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ata-zhü |
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akhrumüi-zhü |
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i-zhü |
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nizhü |
nihi)-zhü |
nita-zhü |
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nikhrumüi-zhü |
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nil®khrumüi-zhü |
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pfozhü |
pfohi)zhü |
pfota(müi)-zhü |
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pfokhrumüi-zhü |
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pfolekhrumüi-zhü |
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| oja-zhü |
‘(the) teacher’s’ |
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| polis-zhü |
‘(the) police’s’ |
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| lohrü-zhü |
‘Lohrü’s’ |
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| ashihra-zhü |
‘Ashihra’s’ |
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| modokapio-zhü |
‘(the) teacher’s’
(deverbal noun) |
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| oho
kashepüi-zhü |
‘(the) paddy-pounder’s’ |
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In a noticeably limited number
of cases, the nominalised genitive does pattern as a determiner, or
interpreting it differently, since the ‘classifier prefix’ of the head noun
is not dropped as it usually is in the context of a genetival attribute (see
3.3.1.1), and since the nominalised genetive is structurally complete, one
could possibly identify the ‘head’ noun as a kind of resumptive noun(?).
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1. |
a larübvü
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‘my book’ |
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1a. |
a zhü larübvü
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‘my book’ lit. mine
book. |
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In illustrative terms, in 1a, larübvü ‘book’
is a resumptive noun. More examples follow :
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pfo khro
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‘his dao’ |
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pfo-zhü
okhro |
‘his dao’ |
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a pfo ofis |
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‘my father’s office’ |
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a pfo-zhü
ofis |
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pfo hi)
mamüi kazhü |
‘her beautiful eyes’ |
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4a. |
pfo-zhü
hi) mamüi
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‘her beautiful eyes’ |
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kazhü 2
5 |
lit. hers beautiful
eyes. |
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However, this function of the monalised genitive viz. that
of occuring in the attributive position is restricted in
currency, and is in fact, typically not felicitous in adult
speech except the few examples cited above, where it stresses
possession. Thus, forms like
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? a-zhü
ocü |
‘mine house’ |
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? a-zhü oba |
‘mine hand’ |
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? a-zhü piko |
‘mine knife’ |
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Some speakers said pfo-zhü ohi)
mamüi kazhü ‘hers beautiful eyes’ could be said only
of artificial (eg. painted) eyes. This rather uncommon example
is also an exception to our thesis that morphologically
marked (or nominalized) genitives express alienable possession.
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