Pertensive marking is to
head-marking languages what
possessive
A possessive or ktetic form (Glossing abbreviation, abbreviated or ; from ; ) is a word or grammatical construction indicating a relationship of possession (linguistics), possession in a broad sense. This can include strict ownership, or a numbe ...
marking is to
dependent-marking A dependent-marking language has grammatical markers of agreement and case government between the words of phrases that tend to appear more on dependents than on heads. The distinction between head-marking and dependent-marking was first explored ...
languages. For example, in
English
English usually refers to:
* English language
* English people
English may also refer to:
Culture, language and peoples
* ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England
* ''English'', an Amish ter ...
, 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").
Other languages with pertensive marking are
Nungon,
Hungarian,
Mansi
Mansi may refer to:
* Mansi people, an Indigenous people of Russia
** Mansi language
*Mansi (name), given name and surname
*Mansi Junction railway station
* Mansi Township, Myanmar
** Mansi, Myanmar, a town in the Kachin State of Myanmar (Burma)
* ...
, and
Khanty
The Khanty (), also known in older literature as Ostyaks (), are a Ugric Indigenous people, living in Khanty–Mansi Autonomous Okrug, a region historically known as " Yugra" in Russia, together with the Mansi. In the autonomous okrug, the K ...
. Some languages, such as
Martuthunira, employ both possessive and pertensive marking.
The term was coined by linguist
Dixon in 2011.
References
Grammatical cases
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