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Compound adjectives in the Erzya language [PDF]
Finno-Ugric World, 2019 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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Word Order Variation is Partially Constrained by Syntactic Complexity. [PDF]
Cogn Sci, 2021 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
Финно-угорский мир, 2021 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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, 2022 Abstract Mordvin, a minority language in European Russia, comprises two closely related languages, Erzya and Moksha, differing from each other mainly in phonology and morphology. The Mordvin languages exhibit a high degree of synthesis in nominal and verbal inflection.
Hamari Arja, Ajanki Rigina
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The Erzya Language. Where is it spoken? [PDF]
Etudes Finno-ougriennes, 2013 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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On Quantification and the Ablative in Erzya and Moksha
, 2023 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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How Free is Alternating Stress in Erzya? [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2022 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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Parts of Speech in Non-typical Function: (A)symmetrical Encoding of Non-verbal Predicates in Erzya
Linguistic Discovery, 2011 Erzya non-verbal conjugation refers to symmetric paradigms in which non-verbal predicates behave morphosyntactically in a similar way to verbal predicates. Notably, though, non-verbal conjugational paradigms are asymmetric, which is seen as an outcome of
Rigina Turunen
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Syntactic functions of the infinitive in the modern Erzya language
Filologičeskie Nauki Voprosy Teorii I Praktiki, 2023 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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