The mystery of the Votic inessive

• Published in: Eesti ja soome-ugri keeleteaduse ajakiri. Journal of Estonian and Finno-Ugric Linguistics
• Main Authors: Elena Markus, Fedor Rozhanskiy
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Estonian
• Published: University of Tartu Press 2019
• Subjects: inessive; morphology; morphophonology; language contact; experimental phonetics; geminate; Philology. Linguistics; P1-1091; Finnic. Baltic-Finnic; PH91-98.5; Selle; votic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.12697/jeful.2019.10.2.07; https://doaj.org/article/32ecae8b5b794d19bca4e55405a3b96c

This paper analyzes the morphophonological structure of the inessive singular forms in Liivtšülä-Luuditsa Votic. There are no fluent speakers of this variety; the research is based on the materials recorded in 2003–2016. The inessive singular forms demonstrate variation of the weak and strong grade...