Maria Usacheva

• PhD
• Senior Researcher at Russian Academy of Sciences

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...

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...

In Beserman Udmurt, a new converb is grammaticalizing from the possessive locative form of the locative noun in-(o)ń-ńig-. We show that the constructions with the converb have clausal structure, while the constructions with the locative noun are NPs, even if they include an indication of the agent and patient of the situation encoded by the locativ...

This chapter summarizes the practice of carrying out dialogue-focused experiments during linguistic fieldwork with endangered Permic idioms. The aim of the chapter is to discuss the methodological aspects of designing and carrying out experiments in the field using different methods.

This paper discusses the advantages and disadvantages of elicitation, corpus study, and experimental study in field research.-on'n'ig-forms in Beserman Udmurt which function both as nomina loci (place names) and as converbs are described with the focus on methodology of gathering the data. It is demonstrated that in the case of productive derivatio...

The report is devoted to communicative-syntactic interface in groups headed by relational nouns in yazva Komi and Beserman Udmurt

The presentation is devoted to syntactic and information structural factors which influence plural marking of adjectives in different dialects of Permic languages

This report is devoted to lexical, morphological, syntactical, and information-structural peculiarities of elicited discources. The presentation is in Russian

The report is devoted to lexical, morphological, syntactic, and information structural peculiarities of elicited discources recorded from speakers of Yazva Komi and Beserman Udmurt

This volume is a collection of articles dealing with the linguistic category of possession and its expression in languages spoken in Europe and North and Central Asia (Uralic, Turkic, Indo-European and Caucasian), with a few excursions into other parts of the world. Some papers engage in typological comparisons, both within and beyond the borders o...

The topic of this paper is case compounding, i.e. attachment of multiple case markers to a noun stem, in Beserman Udmurt, which we also briefly compare to Literary Udmurt. Almost all types of case compounding as described by Noonan (2008) are attested in the language, however derivational compounding and compounding due to suspended affixation only...

The paper gives a detailed description of seven spatial nominal cases in the Beserman dialect of Udmurt, which do not exist in the literary language, namely, six personal local cases and the recessive. These cases are not fully grammaticalized and exhibit some properties rather more characteristic of relational nouns, which is their grammaticalizat...

The paper is devoted to the influence which Russian as a dominant language exerts on Beserman dialect of Udmurt. Analysis is based on a corpus of dialogues recorded and transcribed in Shamardan (a Beserman village in Udmurtia, Russian Federation). It is shown that Russian influence in forms of codemixing and borrowing can be seen at all language le...