Pseudopartitive constructions are not a subtype of nominal juxtaposition in Beserman
Natalia Serdobolskaya,
Maria Usacheva
Abstract: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 … Show more
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