10.1.3. Agreement marking on demonstratives in number and/or case
Inflecting demonstratives (//ez// 'this' and //az// 'that') agree in number and case with the noun they modify.
| ez-ek-et/az-ok-at | a | tanuló-k-at |
| this-PL-ACC/that-PL-ACC | the | student-PL-ACC |
’these/those students’
Source: Dékány 2021: 101.
Inflecting demonstratives (//ez// 'this' and //az// 'that') also agree with postpositions that take unmarked complements.
| ez-alatt | a | fa | alatt |
| this-under | the | tree | under |
’under this tree’
Source: Dékány 2021: 101.
Inflecting demonstratives (//ez// 'this' and //az// 'that') also agree with the head noun if it has a possessive anaphor suffix -é.
| ez-ek-é | a | tanuló-k-é |
| this-PL-é | the | student-PL-é |
’the one of these students’
Source: Dékány 2021: 101.
Inflecting demonstratives (//ez// 'this' and //az// 'that') do not agree with a possessed head noun and they cannot bear possessive marking.
| ez(*-em) | a | ház-am |
| this-1G | the | house-1SG |
’this house of mine’
Source: Dékány 2021: 107.
Inflecting demonstratives (ez 'this' and az 'that') do not agree with a head in associative plural.
| *ez-(-ék) | a | fiú-ék |
| this-APL | the | boy-APL |
’this boy and his associates’
Source: Viszket, Kleiber & Szabó 2018: 1036 (only part of the example is cited)
Non-inflecting demonstratives (//e/eme/ezen// 'this' and //ama/azon// 'that') do not agree in number and case with the noun they modify. They are morphologically invariant.
| ezen(*-ek-et) | könyv-ek-et |
| this-PL-ACC | book-PL-ACC |
’these books’
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