Skip to main content
Skip to main content

Polina at the 4th Syntax of Uralic Languages

June 13, 2022 Linguistics

PhD student Polina Pleshak, seated in front of an antique mirror and clock

On quantificational interpretations of -n forms in Hill Mari.

June 16, Polina Pleshak presents "Marker -n in Hill Mari: between subjects and adverbial adjuncts," joint work with Irina Khomchenkova of Moscow State University, at SOUL-4, the 4th Syntax of Uralic Languages conferences. The paper gives an analysis of forms in Hill Mari that are suffixed with -n, which function either as adverbs, or as a subject-oriented quantifiers.