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A grammar of Pite Saami, 2014

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5.3 Number and case marking on nouns<br />

Table 5.1: Nominal case and number suffixes<br />

singular plural<br />

nom - - (∼ -h)<br />

gen - (∼ -h) -j<br />

acc -v -jt<br />

ill -j -jda<br />

iness -n -jn<br />

elat -st -jst<br />

com -jn(a) -j<br />

abess -dak, -daga, -gat, -gahta, -ahta<br />

ess -n<br />

• -j for ill.sg, gen.pl, and com.pl<br />

• -jn for iness.pl and com.sg<br />

• -n for ess and iness.sg<br />

• (optional) -h for nom.pl and gen.sg 6<br />

For Class III nouns 7 which do not exhibit any stem allomorphy, the corresponding<br />

inflected noun forms within a paradigm are therefore syncretic. Two examples<br />

are listed in Table 5.2.<br />

Table 5.2: Syncretic inflectional form sets for Class III nouns without stem<br />

allomorphy<br />

ill.sg/gen.pl/com.pl iness.pl/com.sg ess/iness.sg nom.pl/gen.sg<br />

almatjij almatjijn almatjin almatja(h) ‘person’<br />

ålolij ålolijn ålolin ålola(h) ‘tool’<br />

However, for nouns which have stem allomorphy (consonant gradation, umlaut<br />

and/or j-suffix vowel harmony), different stem allomorphs are chosen for<br />

ill.sg than for gen.pl and com.pl, for ess than for iness.sg, and for nom.sg than<br />

for nom.pl and gen.sg.<br />

6 The alternative to the optional -h suffix for nom.pl and gen.sg forms is no suffix (except for<br />

Class III nouns, which are marked by -Ca).<br />

7 Cf. §5.4.3.<br />

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