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EXPRESSION OF DEFINITENESS AND INDEFINITENESS OF THE DIRECT OBJECT IN THE MORDVIN LANGUAGES

Linguistica Uralica, 1966
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Optimizing verbal agreement in Mordvin

Studia Linguistica, 2007
Abstract. In the Mordvin definite conjugation, portmanteau verbal affixes cross‐reference the person and number of both subject and object. This complex agreement system shows extensive syncretism, which is more acute among the most marked members of the paradigm.
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The Mordvins: Dilemmas of Mobilization in a Biethnic Community

Nationalities Papers, 2001
The Mordvins are the largest and the southernmost Finno-Ugrian nationality in Russia. Their titular autonomous unit, the Mordovian Republic, is located in the southern part of the Volga-Viatka economic region, on the border between the forest and forest-steppe zones. The ethnic composition of today's Mordovia is mixed.
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Factivity as a trigger of agreement with complement clauses in Moksha Mordvin

Voprosy Jazykoznanija, 2022
The paper is aimed at finding the factors determining the choice between the subject and subject-object agreement patterns of complement-taking verbs in Moksha Mordvin. We analyze the following factors: factivity, truth value of the proposition in the complement clause, given vs. new, information structure.
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The passive in Erzya-Mordvin folklore

2006
The aim of this research is to shed some light on theMordvin passive, an inadequately studied grammatical aspect of the language. Passive sentences contain a special polyfunctional derivative suffix -v-. Since only some groups of verbs with this suffix are passive, final judgement on the meaning can be rendered only in context. The relationship between
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Iterative and avertive polysemy in Moksha Mordvin

STUF - Language Typology and Universals, 2019
AbstractThe paper focuses on a two aspectual morphemes in Moksha Mordvin (<Mordvin<Finno-Ugric). The first of them, the Frequentative, has four phonologically conditioned allomorphs, -ənd-, -n’ə-, -s’ə-, and -kšn’ə-. These affixes used to be separate morphemes in Proto-Finno-Ugric, but ended up as having the same meaning and being complementarily
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The shka-comparative of the Mordvin languages

2021
This paper deals with the comparative suffix -ška of the Mordvin languages Erzya and Moksha. Traditionally, the suffix has been regarded as the ending of the comparative case with the meaning ‘about the amount of X’. However, it has a rather limited range of uses in this function.
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Case variation in quantifier constructions in the Mordvinic languages

Journal of Uralic Linguistics
Abstract This paper presents a descriptive study of the case variation of nouns attested in quantifier constructions of Mordvinic. We illustrate the contexts in which the case variation occurs and investigate the reasons behind it. Data is extracted from the MokshEr-corpus, which consists of texts written in the contemporary
Mariann Bernhardt, Denys Teptiuk
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Moksha Mordvin

2023
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The Bokino medieval Mordvin cemetery

Rossiiskaia arkheologiia, 2020
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