Adnominal possessive constructions in Mordvin, Mari and Permic

• Published in: Eesti ja soome-ugri keeleteaduse ajakiri. Journal of Estonian and Finno-Ugric Linguistics
• Main Author: Polina Pleshak
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Estonian
• Published: University of Tartu Press 2018
• Subjects: intragenetic typology; possessive constructions; Dependent-marking; Double-marking; genitive case; possessive marker; Philology. Linguistics; P1-1091; Finnic. Baltic-Finnic; PH91-98.5; Izhma; Izhma-Komi
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.12697/jeful.2018.9.1.06; https://doaj.org/article/5f6eb717d1fd4e81a8d3fc4c367e5cd6

This paper deals with adnominal possessive constructions in Moksha, Erzya, Meadow Mari, Hill Mari, Izhma Komi and Udmurt. The two main constructions that encode possessive relations in all the languages of the sample are the same: Dependentmarking and Double-marking. Izhma Komi also uses Head-markin...