Suffix recording
The Suffixaufnahme is encountered in some languages grammatical phenomenon that a related phrase in addition to their own markers (for example in the form of case endings , so - suffixes ) the labels of the phrase from which it depends receives. Suffix inclusion is more likely to occur in agglutinating languages . It is not to be equated with the linguistic feature of the double case, although this is a prerequisite for the presence of the suffix inclusion.
Examples
The noun B, which is a genitive attribute of another noun A, is not only equipped with a genitive morpheme , but also with the morphemes of that other assigned noun. A theoretical noun C, which would form the genitive attribute of B, would then acquire both the inflected ending of A, the genitive ending of B and its own genitive ending.
Would you try to replay suffix recording in German, e.g. B. using the noun phrase "the heart of the king-s", one would get constructions like (in the dative ) "the heart of the king-s-en" and (in the genitive) "the heart of the king-s-ens ".
Suffix recording can be found in Old Georgian and some other Caucasian languages ( Tsachurian , Batsish ), as well as in some old Middle Eastern languages ( Elamite , Urartian ).
While on the one hand the complexity of the declination increases slightly, the speaker also has the opportunity to use a more free word order .
literature
- Plank, Frans (Ed.), Double Case: Agreement by Suffixaufnahme . New York: Oxford University Press, 1995 ( ISBN 0-19-508775-5 )
- Summary (Anthony Aristar, Department of English, Wayne State University, Detroit )