Grammaticalization of new cases in Beserman Udmurt

Linguistica Uralica. 2017. Vol. 53. No. 2. P. 27–48.

Usacheva M., Архангельский Т. А.

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 grammaticalization source. Moreover, we show that the approximative also shares some of these properties. Nevertheless, we demonstrate that the aforementioned units have enough case-like properties to be treated as (undergrammaticalized) cases. The study is based on our own field data collected in Udmurtia in 2010-2016.

Ключевые слова: grammaticalization, nominal morphology, Udmurt, Approximative, Beserman, Recessive, Spatial cases