ISSN: 2306-5737E-ISSN: 2658-4069
Acta Linguistica Petropolitana
Transactions of the Institute for Linguistic Studies
ISSN: 2306-5737E-ISSN: 2658-4069
Acta Linguistica Petropolitana
Transactions of the Institute for Linguistic Studies 

Double-marking of indefiniteness in Hill Mari

DOI:10.30842/alp2306573714202
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Bikina D. A. Dvoynoye markirovaniye neopredelennosti v gornomariyskom yazyke1. Acta Linguistica Petropolitana. 37.
In Hill Mari, several indefinite pronoun series are derived by attaching two different indefiniteness markers — e.g., there is a series with a marker ta-, a series with a marker gə̈n'ät, and a special series which has the following structure: ta-STEM-gə̈n'at. This research deals with the semantics of such double-marked indefinites in Hill Mari. We briefly overview the system of indefiniteness markers in Hill Mari and propose an analysis for two double-marked indefinite pronoun series (ta-gə̈n'ät series and ta-än'ät series). We suppose that their semantics is compositional; in this particular case, double-marked forms are associated with the semantics of partitivity in non-referential contexts.
Keywords
indefinite pronouns, specificity, partitivity, indefiniteness, semantic maps, Hill Mari
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Keywords
indefinite pronouns, specificity, partitivity, indefiniteness, semantic maps, Hill Mari
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