Usage of predicative affixes in Bashkir

Semin A. V. Upotrebleniye affiksov skazuyemostiv bashkirskom yazyke. Acta Linguistica Petropolitana. 353.

The article adresses the predicative affixes of the Bashkir language — a group of affixes sometimes added to non-verbal predicates in Bashkir. The research showed that the affixes can be added to predicates differing in lexical category, syntactic complexity and presence/absence of other grammatical suffixes. The first and second person predicative affixes are used optionally, at least when there is an expressed subject in a sentence. The first and second person singular affixes are apparently used with predicates of any type. The usage of the first and second person plural affixes is restricted in some cases. The affix -lar is possibly considered in the paradigm as a third person plural predicative affix.