The Uralic passive-automative *-w : Reflexes and reconstructions reconsidered

In the established Proto-Uralic reconstruction, a detransitivizing verbal suffix *-w is reconstructed on the basis of the Saami -ōj ~ -uvv- (SaaN oidnot ‘to be seen’, čuolbmaduvvat ‘to get entangled’), Finnic -u/-ü (Fi. kuulua ‘to be heard’), Mordvin -v (Erza ńejavoms ‘to be seen’) automative/passiv...

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Main Author: Juha Kuokkala
Language:English
Published: 2022
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.17613/0zbx-0189