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The shka-comparative of the Mordvin languages
2021This 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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The passive in Erzya-Mordvin folklore
2006The 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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Case variation in quantifier constructions in the Mordvinic languages
Journal of Uralic LinguisticsAbstract 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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