Correlatives in Hill Mari — relative clauses or topic?
DOI:10.30842/alp2306573714206
Gareyshina A. R. Korrelyativy v
gornomariyskom yazyke — otnositelnyye predlozheniya ili topik?.
Acta Linguistica Petropolitana. 132.
The present paper deals with correlative
constructions in the Hill (Western) Mari language and aims at
describing the exact repertoire of correlatives and their
properties originating from relative clauses and topics. Focusing
primarily on syntactic tests, I conclude that Hill Mari
correlatives are topic-like structures. Overall, the research is a
contribution to the syntactic typology of Uralic languages and
proves that Hill Mari correlatives possess properties distinct from
ones typical for Indo-European correlatives, e.g. in Russian.
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