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Observations on non-possessive usages of personal markers (possessive suffixes) in Nganasan [PDF]

Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2015
This paper aims at a systematic overview of the non-possessive usages of possessive (relational) suffixes in Nganasan. In the analyzed corpus, the non-anchoring usage types of the 3rd person suffix (including the direct anaphoric and situational usages),
Réka Zayzon
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Frequency of Possessive Suffixes in Possessive Constructions in Udmurt [PDF]

Frequency of Possessive Suffixes in Possessive Constructions in Udmurt
Turkic languages (Tatar, Bashkir, and Chuvash) and Uralic languages (Mari and Udmurt) are spoken at the confluence of the Volga and Kama rivers in central Russia. These languages are considered to belong to the Volga-Kama Sprachbund. All of these languages have possessive suffixes attached to possessed nouns to mark the person and number of the ...
菱山, 湧人, Hishiyama, Yuto
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About the Non-Personal Definite Function of the Uralic 3rd Person Possessive Suffix [PDF]

Linguistica Uralica, 2022
Finno-Ugric, Selkup, Turkic and Tungusic share a common (preferred) use of the 3rd person possessive suffix (3Px) in the non-personal definite function.
Ago Künnap
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Northern Mansi possessive suffixes in non-possessive function [PDF]

Eesti ja soome-ugri keeleteaduse ajakiri. Journal of Estonian and Finno-Ugric Linguistics, 2015
Research on possessive suffixes in Ob-Ugric languages, as in most Uralic languages, has primarily viewed them in the light of their terminological denomination – i.e., as markers of possessive relations, traditionally referred to as their prototypic use. Whenever this onomasiology-based approach fails, the usage of possessive suffixes is considered non-
Gwen Eva Janda, Janda, Gwen Eva
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Complex Possessive Pronouns in West Flemish and German [PDF]

Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali, 2023
In this article we discuss a contrastive, morphological agreement pattern exhibited by singular possessive pronouns in West Flemish and German. While West Flemish zen (‘his’) and eur (‘her’) require a suffix -en to mark masculine agreement, they are ...
Anne-Li Demonie, Pamela Goryczka
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Possessive Suffixes as a Means of Expressing the Category of Possession in the Dialects of the Ruzaevka Area of the Republic of Mordovia

Финно-угорский мир
Introduction. The dialects of the Ruzaevsky District of the Republic of Mordovia (the Ruzaevsky area) are characterized by a well-developed system of possessive suffixes, which constitute the main means of expressing the category of possession.
Lyubov P. Vodyasova, Galina S. Ivanova
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On the Etymology of the Oikonym Vogošća (Sarajevo Canton, Bosnia and Herzegovina) [PDF]

Вопросы ономастики, 2021
The paper describes the possible etymological development of the oikonym Vogošća, the name of one of the nine municipalities of Sarajevo Canton, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Nusret Drešković, Edita Spahić
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Mari morpheme order revisited

Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2022
Morpheme order in Mari declension has been extensively studied in the past but attempts to explain the large amounts of alternation found here have been constrained by the difficulty of accessing sufficient data to properly elucidate the complexities in
Luan Hammer, Jeremy Bradley
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Possessive Constructions in Egyptian and Coptic. Distribution, definiteness, and the construct state phenomenon [PDF]

, 2010
In this paper, the distribution of Coptic possessive constructions is defined in terms of syntactic constraints: the construction involving the linking element N- requires the obligatory (and simple) definiteness of the possessed noun as well as the ...
Egedi, Barbara, Barbara Egedi
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Nominal suffixes as markers of information structure in Basketo

Studies in African Languages and Cultures, 2020
This paper deals with the information function of two nominal suffixes, -i appearing in all nouns, and -n- in first- and second-person pronouns in Basketo, a North Omotic language predominantly spoken in the Basketo Special Woreda in Ethiopia.
Hideyuki Inui
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