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A grammar of Pite Saami, 2014

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7.7 Quantifiers<br />

However, when a quantifier is in an elliptic NP, it inflects for case and number<br />

(just as with other attributive adjectives). This is illustrated by enabu ‘more’ in<br />

(32), by gajk ‘all’ in (33), and by nagin ‘some’ in (34)<br />

(32) galgav<br />

galga-v<br />

enabuv<br />

ena-b-uv<br />

shall-1sg.prs much-comp-acc.sg<br />

‘Shall I put in more?’<br />

(33) mana<br />

mana<br />

biejat?<br />

bieja-t<br />

put-inf<br />

tjasskit<br />

tjasski-t<br />

dajd<br />

d-a-jd<br />

åjvijd<br />

åjvi-jd<br />

ja<br />

ja<br />

gajkajd<br />

gajk-ajd<br />

throw-inf dem-dist-acc.pl head-acc.pl and all-acc.pl<br />

go\2sg.imp<br />

duhku<br />

duhku<br />

over.there<br />

‘Go throw those heads and all that over there.’<br />

[pit090519.156]<br />

[pit080909.146]<br />

(34) hålå<br />

hålå<br />

naginav mav<br />

nagina-v ma-v<br />

say\2sg.imp some-acc.sg rel-acc.sg<br />

‘Say something that I should say.’<br />

galgav hållåt<br />

galga-v hållå-t<br />

shall-1sg.prs say-inf<br />

[pit100304.001]<br />

The quantifier aktak ‘none, any’ is used to emphasize a negated clause. It seems<br />

to be composed <strong>of</strong> the numeral akta ‘one’ and the suffix -k, which is a nominalizer<br />

in other cases; however, as illustrated by the examples in (35) and (36), it heads an<br />

attributive AP and does not inflect for case and number, unless it is in an elliptic<br />

NP, as in (37). It is thus considered an adjective.<br />

(35) muvne<br />

muvne<br />

ij<br />

ij<br />

lä<br />

lä<br />

aktak vuopta<br />

aktak vuopta<br />

1sg.iness neg\3sg.prs be\conneg none hair\nom.pl<br />

‘I don’t have any hair.’ (lit.: on me isn’t a single hair) [pit080926.02m02s]e<br />

(36) gu<br />

gu<br />

itjij almatj<br />

itji-j almatj<br />

when neg-3sg.pst person\nom.sg<br />

‘if one didn’t know any people’<br />

(37) itjij<br />

itji-j<br />

almatj åbbå<br />

almatj åbbå<br />

neg-3sg.pst person\nom.sg at.all<br />

‘One didn’t say anything at all.’<br />

dåbdå<br />

dåbdå<br />

know\conneg<br />

aktak almatjid<br />

aktak almatji-jd<br />

none<br />

hålå aktagav<br />

hålå aktag-av<br />

say\conneg none-acc.sg<br />

person-acc.pl<br />

[pit080924.342]<br />

[pit080924.354]<br />

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