Grambank - Feature GB073: Are there morphological cases for independent oblique personal pronominal arguments (i.e. not S/A/P)?

Feature GB073: Are there morphological cases for independent oblique personal pronominal arguments (i.e. not S/A/P)?

Patrons: Jakob Lesage

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Summary

Are phonologically independent personal pronouns morphologically marked for oblique case (i.e. not S, A or P)? Morphological case involves any type of case marking (or flagging) that is phonologically bound (affixes, clitics, tone, alternation, vowel lengthening, etc.). Suppletion also counts as case marking for this feature. Oblique NPs are NPs having a function other than S, A or P, e.g. dative, locative, ablative, instrumental, comitative, location in time, etc. Note that genitive or possessive are not seen as cases for this feature.

Procedure

Check the grammar's sections on pronouns, case/argument marking, adverbials and simple clauses.
Code 1 if oblique case is marked on pronouns using tone, affixation, suppletion, or any other type of bound marking.
Code 0 if oblique functions are only marked on pronouns using phonologically free adpositions.
Code 0 if oblique functions are only marked using constituent order.
Code ? if you think there is not enough data or analysis to say whether oblique case is marked on pronouns (e.g. because it is not clear whether the markers are phonologically bound, or nothing is mentioned by the author and there are no examples of oblique arguments). Mention this in the comment column.

Examples

Aneityum (ISO 639-3: aty, Glottolog: anei1239)

In Aneityum, there are oblique prefixes for phonologically independent personal pronouns (Lynch 2000: 119-120). Aneityum is coded 1 for this feature.

Et       yip̃al        imta-ma             a    tata.
3SG.AOR  tell.story   DAT-1PL.POSS.EXCL   S    Dad
‘Dad told us a story.', lit. ‘Dad storytold to us.’ (Lynch 2000: 128)

Ritarungo (ISO 639-3: rit, Glottolog: rita1239)

In Ritarungo, different pronouns are used for different case functions, and the dative pronoun is the same as the genitive pronoun (Heath 1980: 44). Ritarungo is coded 1 for this feature.

	Nominative	Dative
1SG	ra	raku
1EXL.DU	liñu	ñalaŋu
1EXCL.PL	napu	napuluŋu
1INCL.DU	li	lici
1INCL.PL	lima	limalaŋu

Abun (ISO 639-3: kgr, Glottolog: abun1252)

In Abun, there are no morphological cases at all, not for pronominal noun phrases and not for non-pronominal noun phrases. It is coded 0 for this feature (Berry 1999: 48-49). Core argument functions are solely coded by means of word order, and non-core functions (such as the dative) feature a phonologically free preposition.

men    kadum    men     bi      tiket    is     ye-suk-mise
1PL    show     1PL     POSS    ticket   to     PERS-NOM-evil
‘We showed our tickets to the police.’ (Berry & Berry 1999: 52)

References

Berry, Keith & Christine Berry. 1999. A description of Abun: a West Papuan language of Irian Jaya. (Pacific Linguistics: Series B, 115.) Canberra: Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University.

Heath, Jeffrey. 1980. Basic materials in Ritharngu: Grammar, texts and dictionary. (Pacific Linguistics: Series B, 62.) Canberra: Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University.

Lynch, John. 2000. A grammar of Anejom̃. (Pacific Linguistics, 507.) Canberra: Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University.

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Name	Glottocode	Family	Macroarea	Contributor	Value	Source	Comment