(Udmurt)

PredPossGen +SpecPssd

PredPossGen: The possessed is the functional and/or grammatical subject, the verb is intransitive, and the possessor appears in a non-locative, non-lative form (the form used to answer the question Whose?). This is often the same as the adnominal form of the possessor in possessive constructions, frequently the genitive.

+SpecPssd: The possessed appears in a special form. (For example, it may appear with a personal possessive marker.)

(1)kykarortćy-saanton-lenduno mašina-os-yzlu-o-zy.
twoyearpassCVBAntonGENexpensive carPL3SGbeFUT3PL
’In two years’ time Anton will have expensive cars.’ (Y. S.)

(2)15arortćy-samynamlu-o-zbadʒ́ymkorka.
15yearpassCVBI.GENbeFUT3PLbighouse
’In fifteen years I will have a big house.’ (Asztalos 2018a: 127)

(3)anton-lenkykmašina-jez.
AntonGENtwocar3SG
’Anton has two cars.’ (Y. S.)

(4)anton-lenmašina-os-yzsöriśk-i-zy.
AntonGENcarPL3SGbreak_downPST3PL
’Anton’s cars broke down.’ (Y. S.)

(5)monadʒ́-ianton-leśmašina-os-se.
IseePST.1SGAntonABLcarPL3SG.ACC
’I saw Anton’s cars.’ (Y. S.)

In Udmurt the most common way to express predicative possession is in the form of a habitive sentence with the existential verb functioning as the predicate, the possessee with possessive person and number marking being the subject, and the possessor appearing in genitive case (1) (Edygarova 2010: 230).

Predicative possession can also be expressed in non-canonical ways: occasionally the possessive person marking does not appear on the possessee (Edygarova 2010: 235), l. (2), furthermore, in certain cases the existential verb can also be missing (3) (Edygarova 2010: 237–241, Asztalos 2018a: 127, Asztalos 2018b).

In adnominal possessive constructions – similarly to predicative possessive sentences – the possessor has genitive case (4), except when the possessee is the object of the sentence, in which case the possessor surfaces in ablative case (5) (Winkler 2001: 71).

Author: Erika Asztalos


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