Essive-formal case

Essive-formal case

In the Hungarian language this case combines the Essive case and the Formal case, and it can express the position, task, state (e.g. "as a tourist"), or the manner (e.g. "like a hunted animal"). Thestatus of the suffix "-ként" in the declesion system is disputed for several reasons. First, in general, Hungarian case suffixes are absolute word-final, while "-ként" permits further suffixation by the locativesuffix "-i". Second, most Hungarian case endings participate in vowel harmony, while "-ként" does not.Third, the Hungarian possessive nominal suffix "-é" freely combines with case endings but not with "-ként".For these reasons, many modern analyses of the Hungarian case system, starting with László Antal's"A magyar esetrendszer" (1961) do not consider the essive/formal to be a case.


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