Suffixaufnahme

The Doppelkasus denotes a grammatical phenomenon that is basically found in agglutinative languages ​​.

The noun B, which is a genitive attribute of another noun A is equipped not only with a genitive morpheme, but in addition with the morphemes that other associated noun. A theoretical noun C, which would form the genitive attribute of B would then gain both the inflectional ending of A, the genitive ending of B and the own genitive ending.

If one were to try to re-enact want Suffixaufnahme in German, eg on the basis of the noun phrase "the heart of the king -s " would obtain constructions such as ( in the dative ) " the heart of the king -s - s - s " and (in the genitive ) " heart ens of the King -s- ens ".

While slightly increases the complexity of the declination on the one hand, the speaker receives the same but also the possibility of freer word order.

Suffixaufnahme can be in Altgeorgischen and some other Caucasian languages ​​( Tsachurisch, Batsisch ) as well as in some ancient Middle Eastern languages ​​( Elamite, Urartian ) find.