(Udmurt)

Nom

Nom: Two categories are distinguished from a morphosyntactic perspective: 1. [Sa, Snona, Aa and Anona]; 2. [P]. This type is known as nominative or nominative–accusative.

(1)soporja.
(s)hewalk.3SG
’(S)he is walking.’ (Y. S.)

(2)soiźe.
(s)hesleep.3SG
’(S)he is sleeping.’ (Y. S.)

(3)soraisa-jezutća.
(s)heRaisaACClook_for.3SG
’(S)he is looking for Raisa.’ (Y. S.)

(4)soraisa-jezadʒ́-i-z.
(s)heRaisaACCseePST3SG
’(S)he saw Raisa.’ (Y. S.)

(5)soutća.
(s)heworklook_for.3SG
’(S)he is looking for a job’ (Y. S.)

Udmurt is a nominative language (Winkler 2001: 64) encoding the S/A arguments of transitive and intransitive verbs in a morphosyntactically uniform fashion that differs from the way the P arguments of transitive verbs are treated. The morphological case of S/A arguments is nominative (1–5), that of the P – depending on its definiteness and specificity – accusative (4) or nominative (5) (Csúcs 1990: 34, Winkler 2001: 68, Csúcs 2003, É. Kiss – Tánczos 2018). The Ps without morphological marking pattern together with objects syntactically.

Author: Erika Asztalos


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