On Quantification and the Ablative in Erzya and Moksha

Rueter, Jack and Kabaeva, Nadežda (2023) On Quantification and the Ablative in Erzya and Moksha. In: European Partitives in Comparison. Károli Könyvek. Tanulmánykötet . L'Harmattan Kiadó; Károli Gáspár Református Egyetem, Budapest, pp. 105-133. ISBN 9782336472256; 9782336472263

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Abstract

In this paper, the ablative case and quantification in the Mordvin languages are addressed, drawing on parallel sentences for various notions associated with ablative and paucal/mass quantification marking. Specific morphology is discussed, and two openly accessible and morpho-syntactically annotated corpora are described: the Tetûrev parallel corpus and the Electronic Resources for Moksha and Erzya (ERME2) corpora. An illustration of semantic nuances of the ablative is provided, as found in the parallel corpus, dealing with divergence in ablative quantificational structures, second only to the “standard of comparison” function. Paucal and mass quantifier patterns, used extensively in Moksha but not in Erzya, are inspected, along with a search for contexts where quantifiers in Moksha occur without an ablative counterpart. Finally, further observations from the Tetûrev parallel corpus are mentioned, potentially leading to new, unaddressed matters of Erzya–Moksha divergence in quantification research.

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