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Use of the Nominative of Samoyedic Substantives as Instances of Object and Attribute; pp. 119-126 [PDF]

Linguistica Uralica, 2009
The objective of this article is to present observations on the use of the nominative of Samoyedic substantives as instances of object and attribute. Namely, thanks to N. M.
Ago Künnap
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THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE FIRST PERSON POSSESSOR VARIATIONS IN MADURESE GEOGRAPHIC AND SOCIAL DIALECT

Lite: Jurnal Bahasa, Sastra, dan Budaya, 2015
Madurese has two types of first person possessive construction, the first person possessive markers, tang and sang and the definite suffix –na. This research aims at investigating the distribution of the Madurese first person possessor variations ...
Tunggul Puji Lestari, Ika Nurhayani
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Evidentiality in Dialects of Khanty; pp. 199-211 [PDF]

Linguistica Uralica, 2014
Evidentiality is marked grammatically in the northern Khanty dialects Obdorsk, Synja, and Kazym. Verbs that express evidential modality take the same form as the verbal participle (the derivational morpheme t marks the present participle, and m marks the
Márta Csepregi
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Система посессивных суффиксов эрзянских говоров сел Новомалыклинского района Ульяновской области; pp. 241-258 [PDF]

Linguistica Uralica, 2018
The article is another of a series on Erzyan dialects spoken in the villages of the Novaja Malykla district of the Ulyanovsk region. It relies on field data collected by the authors during linguistic expeditions to areas of compact Erzyan population ...
Nina Agafonova, Ivan Ryabov
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Complex Possessive Pronouns in West Flemish and German

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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A Minimalist analysis of Uyghur genitives

Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 2011
This paper investigates the syntactic structure of so-called genitive-possessive DPs in Uyghur, a Turkic language. Uyghur genitive-possessives bear suffixes on both the “possessing” entity (comparable to the Saxon genitive ’s in English) and the ...
Politzer-Ahles, Stephen
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Agreeing possessors and the theory of case [PDF]

Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2011
I argue that the so-called “possessive adjectives” are not really adjectives, but pronouns (D-projections). Agreement features on possessors do not compete with genitive-marking, as it seems at first sight: they never attach directly to DP, but rather to
Ion Giurgea
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On the 3rd Person Verbal Marker *-sV and the Definite Conjugation in Uralic Languages; pp. 178-197 [PDF]

Linguistica Uralica, 2008
There may be three conjugations in Uralic languages: indefinite, definite and reflexive. The primary determinator of the choice between the indefinite or definite conjugations in Uralic was intransitivity/transitivity - intransitive verbs were used ...
Ago Künnap
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Suomen monitahoinen possessiivisuffiksi ja suomenoppija

Lähivõrdlusi, 2010
The article is concerned with the Finnish possessive suffix from the point of view of teaching and learning. First, this suffix and its present-day use are shortly studied. Then, it will be clarifi ed how this suffix is taught in the textbooks of Finnish
Kirsti Siitonen, Manami Mizuno
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The Historical-comparative Classification of Colombian Inga (Quechua)

Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 1990
Colombian Inga is of particular interest to the Quechuanist because it is the northernmost member of the Quechuan language family spoken in modern times.
Parks, Roger
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