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Reflexivity in Meadow Mari: Binding and Agree [PDF]

Studia Linguistica, 2017
AbstractAccording to the Canonical Binding Theory (Chomsky 1981), anaphors must be bound in their local domain and pronominals must be free. The discovery of “long‐distance anaphors” (e.g. Thrainsson 1976, Giorgi 1984), which violate the locality condition, induced the search for independent criteria.
A. Volkova
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Syntactic Structure of Participial Clauses in Meadow Mari [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2017
It is generally assumed that the syntactic structure of participial relative clauses is impoverished, “reduced” in comparison to that of regular RCs (see a. o. Burzio 1981; Chomsky 1981; Hazout 2001; Siloni 1995; Stowell 1981). Participial RCs are often analysed as VP-like structures (for some, embedded under a nominalizing node, Doron & Reintges 2005;
A. Volkova
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MATERIALS OF FIELD RESEARCH ON FAMILY AND MARRIAGE RELATIONS OF THE MEADOW AND MOUNTAIN MARI

Vestnik Chuvashskogo universiteta, 2023
Comprehensive studying the topic of family and marriage is one of the relevant and important trends in ethnology. Some aspects of the family and marriage problems of the Mari people have not yet been fully investigated and require further scientific development.
Nadezhda A. Vaskanova, Ananii G. Ivanov
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Losing a subject, keeping an indirect object: On the “semi-grammaticalized” speech verb in Meadow Mari

Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America, 2022
This paper investigates grammaticalization of speech verbs with special attention to the status of the indirect object (the goal argument). Based on a double dative construction and a semi-grammaticalized speech verb occurring in this construction in Meadow Mari, I suggest that there exists a stage of grammaticalization where the original speech verb ...
Hiroaki Saito
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Folk Music Wedding Genres of the Meadow Maris

Problemy muzykal'noi nauki / Music Scholarship, 2023
The traditional weddings of the Meadow Maris, known as süàn is a multiphase ritualistic complex consisting of various ritual actions extended in time and carried out in a definite succession of events. Many aspects of the Mari spiritual culture accumulated in them: the sacred- magical ritual elements, the symbolism of traditional clothes, food, poetry,
Alevtina A. Voitovich
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Assessment of the Classification of the Northwestern Dialect of the Mari Language from the Perspective of Glottochronology

Финно-угорский мир
Introduction. The classification of the Northwest dialect of the Mari language is currently not entirely clear. According to the Encyclopedia of the Mari El Republic, the “Northwest Mari language exhibits some features of both Hill Mari and Meadow ...
Julia V. Normanskaja
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The Mari wedding robes as a group’s identity marker (based on the materials of the Russian Museum of Ethnography)

Финно-угорский мир, 2020
Introduction. In traditional culture, wedding clothing is distinguished by its multifunctionality and attractiveness, as it is meant to reflect significant social changes.
Aleksandra A. Pesetskaya
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Reportativity and temporal perspective: On the evidentiality of the particles ulmaš and ə̑lə̑n in the Mari languages

Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri
The Mari languages possess a set of temporally ambivalent TAME constructions containing the particles ə̑ľe and ulmaš in Meadow Mari as well as ə̑ľə̑ and ə̑lə̑n in Hill Mari.
Silja-Maija Spets
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Adnominal possessive constructions in Mordvin, Mari and Permic

Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2018
This paper deals with adnominal possessive constructions in Moksha, Erzya, Meadow Mari, Hill Mari, Izhma Komi and Udmurt. The two main constructions that encode possessive relations in all the languages of the sample are the same: Dependentmarking and ...
Polina Pleshak
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Space Use of an Expanding Generalist Predator Is Shaped by Human, Marine and Seasonal Effects on Arctic Tundra. [PDF]

Ecol Evol
Red foxes that expand into tundra ecosystems threaten biodiversity, and knowledge on their space use is needed to inform management efforts. We found that red fox space use varied with seasons and with environmental contexts. Space use is likely affected by food densities linked to seasonality, human land use and the marine coastline.
Hofhuis SP, Tarroux A, Ims RA, Ehrich D.
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