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A grammar of Pite Saami, 2014

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11 Phrase types<br />

(19) bårov<br />

båro-v<br />

rupsisav<br />

[rupsisa-v] N P<br />

eat-1sg.prs red-acc.sg<br />

‘I eat the red one.’ [pit090930a.119]e<br />

There are many examples in the corpus <strong>of</strong> NPs consisting <strong>of</strong> a pronoun, such<br />

as the demonstrative pronoun dajd in (20), or the personal pronoun mån in (21).<br />

(20) bisij<br />

bisi-j<br />

dajd<br />

[d-a-jd] N P 1<br />

fry-3sg.pst dem-dist-acc.pl<br />

‘He fried those on a stick.’<br />

såbe<br />

[såbe] N P 2<br />

stick\gen.sg<br />

nanne<br />

nanne<br />

on<br />

[pit100404.125]<br />

(21) mån mähttiv ráhpat uksav<br />

[mån] N P 1 mähtti-v ráhpa-t [uksa-v] N P 2<br />

1sg.nom can-1sg.pst open-inf door-acc.sg<br />

‘I could open the door.’ [pit100404.347]<br />

The second NP in (20), såbe ‘stick’, also illustrates a genitive NP functioning as<br />

the complement <strong>of</strong> a PP.<br />

When the head <strong>of</strong> an NP is a personal pronoun, it is also possible to modify it.<br />

For instance, in (22), the 1sg.nom reflexive pronoun etj modifies the 1sg.nom personal<br />

pronoun mån as an intensifier. Note that this ordering (modifier following<br />

the head) deviates from the general pattern, in which the modifier occurs before<br />

the head <strong>of</strong> the NP.<br />

(22) mån<br />

[mån<br />

etj<br />

etj] N P<br />

hålåv<br />

hålå-v<br />

dále navte<br />

dále navte<br />

1sg.nom refl\1sg.nom say-1sg.prs now like.that<br />

‘I myself say it like that.’ [pit090910.29m05s]e<br />

Finally, a relative clause can also occur after the head as part <strong>of</strong> the NP. An<br />

example is provided in (23); see §14.2.4 for more on relative clauses.<br />

(23) dá<br />

d-á<br />

lä jisse<br />

lä jisse<br />

dem\prox-nom.pl be\3pl.prs precisely<br />

dálven<br />

dálve-n<br />

gallga<br />

gallga<br />

adnet<br />

adne-t] N P<br />

winter-iness.sg shall\3sg.prs have-inf<br />

‘These are gloves which one has in winter.’<br />

gistá mejd<br />

[gistá me-jd<br />

glove\nom.pl rel-acc.pl<br />

[pit080708_Session08.006]<br />

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