Pertensive

Grammatical features
Related to nouns
Related to verbs
General features
Syntax relationships
Semantics
Phenomena

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]

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  3. ^ Sarvasy, Hannah S. (2017-01-01). Grammatical Relation-Marking Postpositions. Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-34010-7.
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  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ Dixon, R.M.W. (2011). Basic Linguistic Theory – Volume 2: Grammatical Topics. OUP.