Open AccessThe abessive in the Permic languages
Author(s) -
Arja Hamari
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
suomalais-ugrilaisen seuran aikakauskirja
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1798-2987
pISSN - 0355-0214
DOI - 10.33340/susa.82172
Subject(s) - suffix , noun , linguistics , numeral system , focus (optics) , deixis , computer science , romance languages , natural language processing , mathematics , artificial intelligence , philosophy , physics , optics
In the Permic languages, the forms of the abessive suffix are -te̮g in Komi and -tek in Udmurt. In this study the formal and functional characteristics of the abessive suffixes are treated both in the nominal categories (nouns, pronouns, adjectives, numerals and adverbs) and in verbs. The focus of this investigation is on the similarities and differences that can be detected, firstly, between the two closely related languages and, secondly, between the nominal and verbal categories. The study is mainly based on the Komi and Udmurt standard languages; the study material has been collected from two newspapers, Komi mu and Udmurt duńńe.