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A grammar of Pite Saami, 2014

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Contents<br />

6.4.2 Interrogative pronouns with non-human referents . . . 120<br />

6.4.3 Interrogative pronouns concerning a selection . . . . . . 120<br />

6.4.4 Non-nominal interrogative pro-forms . . . . . . . . . . 123<br />

6.5 Relative pronouns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125<br />

7 Adjectivals 127<br />

7.1 Attributive adjectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128<br />

7.1.1 Attributive adjectives in elliptic constructions . . . . . . 129<br />

7.2 Predicative adjectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130<br />

7.3 A note on attributive and predicative adjectives . . . . . . . . . 134<br />

7.4 Comparatives and superlatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135<br />

7.5 Comparing NP referents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137<br />

7.6 Restrictions on smáva and unna ‘small’ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138<br />

7.7 Quantifiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140<br />

7.8 Demonstratives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142<br />

7.9 Numerals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143<br />

7.9.1 Basic numerals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143<br />

7.9.2 Complex numerals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145<br />

7.9.3 Numerals and morphosyntax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147<br />

8 Verbs 149<br />

8.1 Finite verbs and inflectional categories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149<br />

8.1.1 Person and number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149<br />

8.1.2 Tense . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150<br />

8.1.3 Mood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151<br />

8.2 Non-finite verb forms and periphrastically marked verbal categories<br />

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153<br />

8.2.1 Future . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155<br />

8.2.2 Aspect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155<br />

8.2.3 Negation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157<br />

8.3 Passive voice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158<br />

8.4 Morphological marking strategies on verbs . . . . . . . . . . . . 159<br />

8.4.1 Inflectional suffixes for verbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160<br />

8.4.2 Non-linear morphology in verbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161<br />

8.4.3 The potential mood: inflection or derivation? . . . . . . 165<br />

8.5 Inflectional classes for verbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168<br />

8.5.1 Class I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170<br />

8.5.2 Class II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171<br />

8.5.3 Class III . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173<br />

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