Вторичные пространственные падежи в удмуртском языке: эволюция исследования и терминологии, причины формирования
Secondary spatial cases in the Udmurt language: the evolution of research and terminology, and the reasons for their formation

Summary/Abstract: The article is aimed at studying secondary spatial cases which are used in the Northern dialect zone of the Udmurt language. The research is based on previous studies, including the latest ones conducted in the 21st century, and also the author’s own observations on the dialects. Special attention is paid to controversial aspects, for example, to the issue concerning the semantics of the cases expressing the meaning of “home, hearth”, in other words, the DOMUS localization. This type of localization is typologically quite rare, and therefore many researchers failed to understand the specificity of secondary cases in the Udmurt dialects. Because of the unusual semantics of the cases, their names have not been endorsed yet, and I propose calling them domicile local cases, and in the Latin version to use the term domus. I also set forth and justify the idea that the analyzed cases have developed due to late contacts between the Northern Udmurt dialect speakers and the Komi population.

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