The Category of the Noun Case in the Permian Languages

Abstract

The monograph is the first generalizing study of the category of the noun case of the Permian languages. Based on the material of the Komi and Udmurt languages, their dialects, the structure of case systems, morphological and content characteristics and use of cases, the interaction of the case category with other grammatical categories of the noun are considered in detail. Common and distinctive signs of case systems between the related languages are revealed. The book is addressed to specialists in the field of comparative-historical Finno-Ugric linguistics, areal linguistics, typological case study.