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A grammar of Pite Saami, 2014

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8.4 Morphological marking strategies on verbs<br />

(29) ja<br />

ja<br />

dat<br />

d-a-t<br />

lä<br />

lä<br />

etjaláhkaj<br />

etjaláhkaj<br />

and dem-dist-nom.sg be\3sg.prs different<br />

lij<br />

lij<br />

be\3sg.pst<br />

dal<br />

dal<br />

now<br />

navte<br />

navte<br />

like.that<br />

gårroduvvum<br />

gårro-duvvu-m<br />

sew-pass-prf<br />

dä dat<br />

dä d-a-t<br />

then dem-dist-nom.sg<br />

‘And that is different as it has been sewn like that.’<br />

[pit080708_Session08.011]<br />

(30) men dá<br />

men d-á<br />

but<br />

dem-prox\nom.pl<br />

mierkeduvvum<br />

mierke-duvvu-m<br />

mark-pass-prf<br />

‘But these reindeer have not been marked.’<br />

buhtsu<br />

buhtsu<br />

ij<br />

ij<br />

lä<br />

lä<br />

reindeer\nom.pl neg\3pl.prs be\conneg<br />

[pit080703.030]<br />

The data from the corpus concerning passive verbs are quite limited, but indicates<br />

that passive verbs can be finite verbs inflecting for tense, person and number, as<br />

in (28), or non-finite forms, such as the perfect, as in (29) and (30). However,<br />

due to a lack <strong>of</strong> data, it is not clear whether passives can be used for progressive<br />

aspect, or inflect for either imperative or potential mood.<br />

That being said, these examples do make clear that the passive marker is restricted<br />

to lexical verbs. Passives are therefore not considered to be part <strong>of</strong> inflectional<br />

paradigms, but instead valency-decreasing verbal derivations. See also<br />

§10.2.5 in the chapter on derivational morphology and §13.1.1.1 on syntactic aspects<br />

<strong>of</strong> clauses in the passive voice.<br />

Note that Ruong (1945) includes other derivational suffixes which create passive<br />

verbs that are not attested in the corpus.<br />

8.4 Morphological marking strategies on verbs<br />

As shown in §8.1 above, finite verbs can be marked for four inflectional categories:<br />

• agreement in person with the subject<br />

• agreement in number with the subject<br />

• tense<br />

• mood<br />

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