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A grammar of Pite Saami, 2014

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7 Adjectivals<br />

However, there are at least two exceptions. First, the numeral akta ‘one’ inflects<br />

for acc.sg case when modifying a noun, as illustrated by (51), as well as when it<br />

is in a headless elliptical construction, as in (52). 16<br />

(51) åtjåjmen<br />

åtjå-jmen<br />

aktav<br />

akta-v<br />

guolev<br />

guole-v<br />

get-1du.pst one-acc.sg fish-acc.sg<br />

‘We got one fish.’<br />

(52) men vuotjiv<br />

men vuotji-v<br />

mån<br />

mån<br />

aktav<br />

akta-v<br />

but shoot-1sg.pst 1sg.nom one-acc.sg<br />

‘But I shot one.’<br />

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Second, the example in (53) indicates that at least the ordinal numeral vuostas<br />

‘first’ can be inflected as a superlative as vuostamos, meaning ‘the very first’.<br />

(53) dieda,<br />

dieda<br />

mån<br />

mån<br />

vuotjev<br />

vuotje-v<br />

vuostamos<br />

vuosta-mos<br />

know\2sg.prs 1sg.nom shoot-1sg.pst first-superl<br />

guhkajuolgagav<br />

guhka-juolga-ga-v<br />

long-leg-nmlz-acc.sg<br />

‘You know, I shot my very first long-legger.’ (referring to a moose)<br />

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16 With this in mind, the word akta forms a word-class <strong>of</strong> its own, strictly speaking.<br />

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