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- Title
THE MORPHOLOGY OF MARI NEGATION.
- Authors
SIMONCSICS, PÉTER
- Abstract
Mari - like most of the cognate Finno-Ugric/Uralic languages - is using negative auxiliary as means of negation. Yet on the surface it differs very much from its close cognate, Finnish. The reason for this difference can be found in the shift of the stress from the first syllable to the last one containing a full vowel, which took place under the ifluence of the neighbouring Turkic languages (Tatar, Bashkir and Chuvash). The shift of the stress triggered vowel-rotation by which the two conjugational type can be brought to a common denominator. By the same reason, in historical pespective a common origin can also be found for the two past tense markers (-j and -š) of Mari.
- Subjects
MARI language; COGNATE words; STRESS (Linguistics); MORPHOLOGY (Grammar); TURKIC languages
- Publication
Linguistica Uralica, 2016, Vol 52, Issue 1, p32
- ISSN
0868-4731
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3176/lu.2016.1.03