Grammaticalization of possessive markers in the Beserman dialect of Udmurt

Serdobolskaya, Natalia; Usacheva, Maria; Arkhangelskiy, Timofey

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“…Со времен этих работ возникло немало исследований посвященных непосессивным употреблениям уральских посессивов, которые описывают функционирование посессивов как детерминаторов на корпусном и полевом материале, а также в межъязыковой перспективе [Serdobolskaya et al 2019;Сердобольская 2017;É. Kiss, Tánczos 2018;É.…”

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Northern Khanty possessives and determiner typology

Mikhailov

2023

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In many Uralic languages, possessive agreement markers form a special determiner system. Following several studies that argue that Uralic possessives have been grammaticalized as determiners, the present study (based on original field data) describes the semantics of four such determiners in the Kazym dialect of Northern Khanty and sets them against the background of recent investigations of typology and the theory of determiner semantics. Although these determiners involve well-known semantic features (familiarity, uniqueness, sa‑ lience, partitivity, intensional rigidity), some of the combinations of these features observed in Northern Khanty appear to be previously unattested among the world’s languages. For instance, I claim that in Northern Khanty, there are definite possessive markers, as well as a determiner that marks the most salient referent. In other cases, the Northern Khanty data confirm the findings of my predecessors, with the only difference being that in their data the relevant oppositions are found in expressions unrelated to possessives. Thus, this study contributes to determiner typology and to field-based semantic research in the languages of Russia, continuing the direction of Uralic studies started by [Nikolaeva 2003; Fraurud 2001; Kuznetsova 2003].

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Northern Khanty possessives and determiner typology

Mikhailov

2023

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Pseudopartitive constructions are not a subtype of nominal juxtaposition in Beserman

Serdobolskaya,

Usacheva

2023

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Juxtaposition as a machinery of building noun phrases is well-known to be widespread in Uralic languages: the modifier is left-adjoined to the head and does not bear any morphological marker of syntactic dependency. This strategy is used to attach adjectives, cardinals and modifying nominals to nouns (like in Beserman ǯ́aǯ́eg siĺ ‘goose meat’), and to build constructions with measure nouns (like Beserman odig kə̑də̑ gibi ‘one basket of mushrooms’, lit. one basket mushroom). However, there remains a question whether all these constructions share the same syntactic structure. We consider pseudopartitive constructions with measure nouns in comparison with NPs containing non-marked modifying nominals and NPs with adjectives, showing that they do not share the same syntactic structure. Constructions with unmarked modifying nominals show properties of compounding, while pseudopartitives arguably have a measure phrase (a cardinal with a measure noun) and a noun phrase (the quantified nominal), which is the head of the pseudopartitive construction. The syntactic properties we analyze include constituent properties, branching, pronominalization, fragment questions, linear ordering restrictions, particular properties of head ellipsis, and information structure effects.

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A new converb originating from the locative noun in Beserman

Usacheva,

Serdobolskaya

2023

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In Beserman, a new converb grammaticalizes from the possessive locative form of the locative noun in (o)ń-ńig. We show that the constructions with the converb have a clausal structure, while the constructions with the locative noun are mostly noun phrases, even if they include an indication of the agent and patient of the situation encoded by the locative noun. Semantically, the two types of constructions are also different. In the converb constructions the situations encoded by the main and the embedded clause must overlap, while with locative nouns this is not necessarily the case. The temporal reference of locative nouns is habitual/iterative, while converbs often have episodic (non-habitual) interpretation. The original locative noun denotes a reference to a fixed location where the situation usually takes place. In the constructions with the converb this meaning is bleached and generalized as an action which takes place in any possible location.

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Grammaticalization of possessive markers in the Beserman dialect of Udmurt

Cited by 4 publications

References 13 publications

Northern Khanty possessives and determiner typology

Northern Khanty possessives and determiner typology

Pseudopartitive constructions are not a subtype of nominal juxtaposition in Beserman

A new converb originating from the locative noun in Beserman

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