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On Quantification and the Ablative in Erzya and Moksha
In this paper, the ablative case and quantification in the Mordvin languages are addressed, drawing on parallel sentences for various notions associated with ablative and paucal/mass quantification marking. Specific morphology is discussed, and two openly accessible and morpho-syntactically annotated corpora are described: the Tetûrev parallel corpus ...
Jack Rueter, Nadežda Kabaeva
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Compound adjectives in the Erzya language [PDF]
Introduction. The changes occurring in the modern world have an impact on the language, in particular, this results in an increased appearance of complex word forms.
Tatiana P. Ariskina
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A typology of non-verbal predication in Erzya [PDF]
In the domain of non-verbal predication, three predication strategies are identified in Erzya. Predication is expressed in nominal, adjectival and locational predicate constructions by (i) the zero-copula construction, (ii) the predicative suffix construction or (iii) the copula construction.
Turunen, Rigina
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Word Order Variation is Partially Constrained by Syntactic Complexity. [PDF]
Abstract Previous work suggests that when speakers linearize syntactic structures, they place longer and more complex dependents further away from the head word to which they belong than shorter and simpler dependents, and that they do so with increasing rigidity the longer expressions get, for example, longer objects tend to be placed further away ...
Jing Y, Widmer P, Bickel B.
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Compound adjectives in the Erzya and Hungarian languages
Introduction. Compounding is one of the leading ways to update vocabulary. A compound word is the result of combining two or more meanings at the lexical-semantic, word-formation, syntactic levels, which determines versatile approaches to its study ...
Tatiana P. Ariskina
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How Free is Alternating Stress in Erzya? [PDF]
The present paper addresses the subject of the variability of stress assignment in Erzya. The aim of the analysis reported here was establishing speaker-, utterance- and word-related data that might account for the alternation of the initial and non ...
Niina Aasmäe, Jaan Ross
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The Erzya Language. Where is it spoken? [PDF]
This article deals with Erzya, their affiliations, where they live and where their language is spoken. A geographical presentation is outlined for where Erzya has been traditionally spoken over the past one hundred years, as documented in the collections of Heikki Paasonen.
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Syntactic functions of the infinitive in the modern Erzya language
The aim of the study is to identify the syntactic functions of the infinitive using the material of one of the Mordovian languages, Erzya. The paper presents the polyfunctionality of this indefinite verb form conditioned by the synthesis of verbal and substantive semes.
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Hunting for antiharmonic stems in Erzya [PDF]
László Fejes
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