Pertensive

Type of marking in linguistics

Grammatical features
Related to nouns Animacy Case Dative construction Dative shift Quirky subject Nominative Comitative Instrumental Classifier Measure word Construct state Countability Count noun Mass noun Collective noun Definiteness Gender Genitive construction Possession Suffixaufnahme (case stacking) Noun class Number Singular Dual Plural Singulative-Collective-Plurative Specificity Universal grinder
Related to verbs Associated motion Clusivity Conjugation Evidentiality Modality Person Telicity Mirativity Tense–aspect–mood Grammatical aspect Lexical aspect (Aktionsart) Mood Tense Voice
General features Affect Boundedness Comparison (degree) Egophoricity Pluractionality (verbal number) Honorifics (politeness) Polarity Reciprocity Reflexive pronoun Reflexive verb
Syntax relationships Argument Transitivity Valency Branching Serial verb construction Traditional grammar Predicate Subject Object Adjunct Predicative
Semantics Contrast Mirativity Thematic relation Agent Patient Topic and Comment Focus Volition Veridicality
Phenomena Agreement Polypersonal agreement Declension Empty category Incorporation Inflection Markedness
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Pertensive marking is to head-marking languages what possessive marking is to dependent-marking languages.^[1] For example, in English, a dependent-marking language, possession in the phrase "a person's rodent" is indicated by the placement of the possessive suffix "'s" on the dependent grammatical constituent, "person's,", while the head constituent, "rodent," is left unmarked. In contrast, Shilluk places a pertensive affix on the head (e.g., dúup = "rodent", dû́uup = "rodent belonging to").^[2] Other languages with pertensive marking are Nungon,^[3] Hungarian, Mansi, and Khanty.^[4] Some languages, such as Martuthunira, employ both possessive and pertensive marking.^[5]

The term was coined by linguist Dixon in 2011.^[6]

References

^ Matthews, P. H. (2014-05-22), "'pertensive'", The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics, Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acref/9780199675128.001.0001, ISBN 978-0-19-967512-8, retrieved 2021-01-18
^ Remijsen, Bert; Ayoker, Otto Gwado (2017). "Shilluk noun morphology and noun phrase morphosyntax". Research gate.
^ Sarvasy, Hannah S. (2017-01-01). Grammatical Relation-Marking Postpositions. Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-34010-7.
^ Abondolo, Daniel (2017-05-10). "Uralic Languages". Oxford Handbooks Online. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199935345.013.6. ISBN 978-0-19-993534-5. Retrieved 2021-01-18.
^ Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y.; Dixon, R. M. W., eds. (2012). "Possession in Martuthunira - Oxford Scholarship". oxford.universitypressscholarship.com. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199660223.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-19-966022-3. Retrieved 2021-01-18.
^ Dixon, R.M.W. (2011). Basic Linguistic Theory – Volume 2: Grammatical Topics. OUP.