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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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archaeology
mordvins
moksha

erzya
golden horde
p1-1091

middle ages
philology. linguistics
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