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A grammar of Pite Saami, 2014

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5.2 The nominal case system<br />

(14) vadde<br />

vadde<br />

Jåssjåj<br />

Jåssjå-j<br />

give\sg.imp Josh-ill.sg<br />

‘Give (one) to Josh, too!’<br />

aj<br />

aj<br />

also<br />

[pit090519.033]<br />

Finally, familial relations can also be expressed using an illative construction.<br />

In such cases, the ‘ego’ <strong>of</strong> the family relation is in the illative, as in (15).<br />

(15) dån<br />

dån<br />

lä eddno<br />

lä eddno<br />

2sg.nom be\2sg.prs maternal.uncle\nom.sg<br />

munje<br />

munje<br />

1sg.ill<br />

‘You are my maternal uncle.’ (lit.: you are maternal uncle to me)<br />

[pit110413b.035]e<br />

In this example, the illative nominal is a pronoun, but it is plausible that full<br />

nouns are possible in this function as well, although there are no such tokens in<br />

the corpus.<br />

5.2.5 Inessive case<br />

The inessive case (iness) marks nouns that function as adjuncts to verbal clauses<br />

indicating the location <strong>of</strong> the event or action, as in (16).<br />

(16) nå,<br />

nå<br />

mav<br />

ma-v<br />

enabov<br />

enabo-v<br />

dihki<br />

dihki<br />

Áhkkabakten?<br />

Ahkkabakte-n<br />

well what-acc.sg more-acc.sg do\2sg.pst Ahkkabakte-iness.sg<br />

‘Well, what more did you do in Áhkkabakkte?’<br />

[pit080924.021]<br />

Similarly, as the complement <strong>of</strong> the copular verb, an inessive noun indicates<br />

the location <strong>of</strong> the subject referent, as in (17).<br />

(17) vággen<br />

vágge-n<br />

valley-iness.sg<br />

‘Sálvo Creek is in the valley.’<br />

Sálvojåhkå’l<br />

Sálvo-jåhkå=l<br />

Sálvo-creek\nom.sg=be\3sg.prs<br />

[pit100404.007]<br />

The possessor noun in a possessive copular clause (cf. §13.1.4) is also in the<br />

inessive case, as in (18).<br />

(18) sámen<br />

sáme-n<br />

lä<br />

lä<br />

bena<br />

bena<br />

<strong>Saami</strong>-iness.sg be\3sg.prs dog\nom.sg<br />

‘The <strong>Saami</strong> man has a dog.’ (lit.: at <strong>Saami</strong> is dog)<br />

[pit080917a.068]e<br />

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