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A grammar of Pite Saami, 2014

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5 Nominals I: Nouns<br />

The comitative also marks nouns referring to an instrument used to carry out<br />

an action, as in (30).<br />

(30) del<br />

del<br />

vuodja<br />

vuodja<br />

bijlajn<br />

bijla-jn<br />

Örnvikaj<br />

Örnvika-j<br />

ja<br />

ja<br />

dä<br />

dä<br />

vádnasijn<br />

vádnasi-jn<br />

now drive\3sg.prs car-com.sg Örnvik-ill.sg and then boat-com.sg<br />

Tjeggelvasa<br />

Tjeggelvas-a<br />

Tjeggelvas-gen.sg<br />

badjel<br />

badjel<br />

over<br />

‘Now one drives to Örnvik by car, then by boat over Lake Tjeggelvas.’<br />

[pit080924.471]<br />

When two persons or things are equated with respect to a certain characteristic,<br />

the comitative marks the noun whose referent is the standard <strong>of</strong> comparison,<br />

as in (31).<br />

(31) Svenna<br />

Svenna<br />

lä<br />

lä<br />

akta vuoras Ingerijn<br />

akta vuoras Inger-ijn<br />

Sven\nom.sg be\3sg.prs one old Inger-com.sg<br />

‘Sven is as old as Inger.’ (lit.: Sven is one age with Inger)<br />

5.2.8 Abessive case<br />

[pit110331b.135]e<br />

The referent <strong>of</strong> a noun marked by the abessive case (abess) is lacking or missing,<br />

as illustrated by (32) 3 and (33).<br />

(32) válda<br />

válda<br />

káfav<br />

káfa-v<br />

suhkorijn<br />

suhkori-jn<br />

jala<br />

jala<br />

take\2sg.prs c<strong>of</strong>fee-acc.sg sugar-com.sg or<br />

(33) dån<br />

dån<br />

suhkorahta?<br />

suhkor-ahta<br />

sugar-abess<br />

‘Do you take your c<strong>of</strong>fee with sugar or without sugar?’<br />

[pit110509b.11m41s]e<br />

lä vájmodak<br />

lä vájmo-dak<br />

2sg.nom be\2sg.prs heart-abess<br />

‘You are heartless now.’<br />

dal<br />

dal<br />

now<br />

[pit110413a.226]e<br />

Note that nouns in abessive are rare in natural speech, and limited to elicitation<br />

sessions in the corpus. 4 While the meaning <strong>of</strong> nouns in the abessive case is quite<br />

3 This example is also found in (29) above but is repeated here for convenience, as well as to<br />

focus on the abessive noun.<br />

4 The Wordlist Project’s wordlist indicates that the word ájnát can also be used to express ‘without’<br />

(entry 4367; cf. §1.2.3.4), but the corpus does not provide any tokens <strong>of</strong> this.<br />

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