Nominal Structures of Uralic Languages

The verb must be present with all persons. Note that normally third person subject is expected in predicative possession, which is basically an existential pattern and requires a non-specific subject. Referential pronouns (such as personal pronouns and demonstratives) ar specific and normally cannot be possessed, possessive suffixes never appear on them either. These construction are rather locative clauses with a (dative-marked) beneficiary argument, than predicative possession.

Mari-nak	van	egy	gyerek-e	és	Péter-nek	vagy	te.
Mary-DAT	be.3SG	a	child-POSS	and	Peter-DAT	be.2SG	you.

’Mary has a child, and Peter has you. (Lit: you are (there) for Peter)’

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