Datapoint Alutor / The Associative Plural

Examples

Sentence igt-2185:

pəkir - ləqiv - la - t qutkin j n j aqu - tək

pəkir - ləqiv - la - t

come - LQIV - PLR - 3pl.s+PF

qutkin j n j aqu - tək

Kutkinnjaku - dat+nsg

They drew nearer to the place belonging to Kutkinnjaku and others [=Kutkinnjaku’s family].

Sentence igt-2186:

jaqi qutkin j n j aqu - nti ta - ɣala - lqiv - la - ŋ

jaqi

then

qutkin j n j aqu - nti

Kutkinnjaku - nom+du

ta - ɣala - lqiv - la - ŋ

pot - pass - LQIV - PLR - pot

Then Kutkinnjaku and the other one [=his wife Miti] will be passing by.

Sentence igt-2187:

qutkin j n j aqu - tɣin un j un j u ɣ - itə - lqiv - lin

qutkin j n j aqu - tɣin

Kutkinnjaku - poss.pl+3sg

un j un j u

child+nom+sg

ɣ - itə - lqiv - lin

res - be - LQIV - res+3sg.s

Kutkinnjaku and the other one [=his wife?] had a child.

Sentence igt-2188:

ʕoro ra - tenə - ŋ ɣa - sem.av - lin: - -“tō ta - jena - lqiv - la - ŋ val j a - wwi

ʕoro

then

ra - tenə - ŋ

house - APUD - dat

ɣa - sem.av - lin: - -“tō

res - approach - res+3sg.s

INTERJ

ta - jena - lqiv - la - ŋ

pot - go.out - LQIV - PLR - pot

val j a - wwi

Valja - nom+pl

Then he came near home - Oh, Valja and others [=wife and children?] will now come out to meet me.

Sentence igt-2189:

to vitɣa əmqa - wwi ɣa - wəjwə=ŋtu - laŋ to onəp=nuta - ŋ ɣa - la - laŋin, ŋanə.k ɣa - ŋvu - laŋin tan j ŋə.sitə - k

to

and

vitɣa

soon

əmqa - wwi

Ymka - nom+pl

ɣa - wəjwə=ŋtu - laŋ

res - fortress=go.out - res+3pl.s

to

and

onəp=nuta - ŋ

local=tundra - dat

ɣa - la - laŋin,

res - come - res-3pl.s

ŋanə.k

there

ɣa - ŋvu - laŋin

res - begin - res+3pl.s

tan j ŋə.sitə - k

fight - inf

And Ymka and others [=Ymka, his son Pininan and his brother Tavitan] left the fortress and went to the tundra, and began to fight there.

References

• Kibrik et al. 2000