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A grammar of Pite Saami, 2014

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Contents<br />

3.2 Vowels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63<br />

3.2.1 Vowel phonemes and allophonic variations . . . . . . . 64<br />

3.2.2 Epenthetic schwa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70<br />

4 Morphological patterns and word classes 73<br />

4.1 Overview <strong>of</strong> morphology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73<br />

4.1.1 Linear morphology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74<br />

4.1.2 Non-linear morphology (morphophonology) . . . . . . . 74<br />

4.2 Overview <strong>of</strong> word classes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81<br />

5 Nominals I: Nouns 83<br />

5.1 Number in nouns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83<br />

5.2 The nominal case system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84<br />

5.2.1 Nominative case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84<br />

5.2.2 Genitive case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85<br />

5.2.3 Accusative case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85<br />

5.2.4 Illative case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86<br />

5.2.5 Inessive case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87<br />

5.2.6 Elative case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88<br />

5.2.7 Comitative case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89<br />

5.2.8 Abessive case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90<br />

5.2.9 Essive case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91<br />

5.3 Number and case marking on nouns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92<br />

5.3.1 Nominal suffixes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92<br />

5.3.2 Non-linear noun morphology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95<br />

5.3.3 Problematic case/number marking in abessive case . . . 97<br />

5.4 Inflectional classes for nouns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98<br />

5.4.1 Class I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100<br />

5.4.2 Class II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104<br />

5.4.3 Class III . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105<br />

5.4.4 Summary <strong>of</strong> noun classes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107<br />

5.5 Possessive suffixes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108<br />

6 Nominals II: Pronouns 113<br />

6.1 Personal pronouns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113<br />

6.2 Demonstrative pronouns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115<br />

6.3 Reflexive pronouns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117<br />

6.4 Interrogative pronouns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119<br />

6.4.1 Interrogative pronouns with human referents . . . . . . 119<br />

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