Person[psor]: possessor’s person
| Values: | 1 | 2 | 3 |
Person[psor] is the possessor’s person, marked for exmaple on nouns, emphatic pronouns, infinitives, or adpositions. In possessive uses, such forms typically correspond to an English possessive pronouns followed by a noun.
We do not annotate possessive determiners with Person[psor], as they are actually identical to personal pronouns in the genitive case.
Note that traditional Armenian grammars distinguish possessive, demonstrative, and personal articles (suffixes) in addition to the definite article. The same set of suffixes serves all three functions. Depending on the context, they may indicate that the referent is near the speaker (proximal, first person), near the addressee (second person), or distant from both (third person), or they may express possession by one of them. Consequently, the subscript [psor] does not always denote a possessor in this feature, as the same annotation is also used for the person-indexing function of these suffixes. The person-indexing and possessive functions can only be distinguished from context.
See also the related features Number[psor] and Deixis[psor].
1: first person possessor
Examples
- տունս/towns “my house”
Number=Sing|Number[psor]=Sing|Person[psor]=1 - տներս/tners “my houses”
Number=Plur|Number[psor]=Sing|Person[psor]=1 - գալս/gals “my coming”
Number[psor]=Sing|Person[psor]=1 - (ես) ուսուցիչս/(es) owsowcʼičs “I, the teacher” or “my teacher”
Number=Sing|Person[psor]=1orNumber=Sing|Number[psor]=Sing|Person[psor]=1 - ինքս/inkʼs “myself”
Number=Sing|Number[psor]=Sing|Person[psor]=1 - հետս/hets “with me”
Number[psor]=Sing|Person[psor]=1
2: second person possessor
Examples
- տունդ/townd “your
Singhouse”Number=Sing|Number[psor]=Sing|Person[psor]=2 - տներդ/tnerd “your
Singhouses”Number=Plur|Number[psor]=Sing|Person[psor]=2 - գալդ/gald “your
Singcoming”Number[psor]=Sing|Person[psor]=2 - (դու) ուսուցիչդ/(dow) owsowcʼičd “you
Sing, the teacher” or “yourSingteacher”Number=Sing|Person[psor]=2orNumber=Sing|Number[psor]=Sing|Person[psor]=2 - ինքդ/inkʼd “you
Singyourself”Number=Sing|Number[psor]=Sing|Person[psor]=2 - հետդ/hetd “with you
Sing”Number[psor]=Sing|Person[psor]=2
3: third person possessor
Examples
- տունն(ը)/townn(ë) “his/her/its house”
Number=Sing|Number[psor]=Sing|Person[psor]=3 - տներն(ը)/tnern(ë) “his/her/its houses”
Number=Plur|Number[psor]=Sing|Person[psor]=3 - (նա) ուսուցիչն(ը)/(na) owsowcʼičn(ë) “he/she, the teacher” or “his/her/its teacher”
Number=Sing|Person[psor]=3orNumber=Sing|Number[psor]=Sing|Person[psor]=3 - գալն(ը)/galn(ë) “his/her/its coming”
Number[psor]=Sing|Person[psor]=3 - հետն(ը)/hetn(ë) “with him/her/it”
Number[psor]=Sing|Person[psor]=3
Note that forms containing -ն/-n or -ը/-ë may be ambiguous, since these morphemes are also definite articles, and their function can only be determined from the context (see above).
Person[psor] in other languages: [ab] [abq] [apu] [axm] [ctn] [ess] [fi] [fr] [hu] [hy] [koi] [kpv] [ky] [mdf] [myv] [ruc] [sms] [tr] [u] [uz]