Word order of definite articles (Udmurt)

NoDefArt

NoDefArt: The language does not have definite articles.

(1)gord-jos-yz holoďiľńik-yn.
redPLDETfridgeINE
’The red ones are in the fridge.’ (Georgieva 2020)

Udmurt has no definite articles. In the case of nominal ellipsis, however, the suffix -(j)ez/-yz, of possessive person marker origin, can be identified as a suffixed partitive article, cf. Georgieva (2020).

Author: Erika Asztalos


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