On-site and online talk "Remarks on Relativization in Meadow Mari – a corpus-based approach" – Monday, 27 April

Levente Máthé (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest) will give a talk in the Institut für Finnougristik / Uralistik - LMU München research colloquium.

When and where: 14:15–15:45 CEST, F 007 in the main building.

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Abstract: In this talk, I present the theoretical background of my doctoral research on relativization in Meadow Mari and introduce preliminary findings that will be further developed throughout the dissertation. Relative constructions and relative clauses have received sustained attention in both typological and Uralic linguistics. Building on this work, I examine relativizing strategies in Meadow Mari using preliminary corpus data. Specifically, I map the relativizing capacities of participles (i.e., which arguments they can relativize) and investigate the functions and distribution of the relative pronoun kudo in written corpora. I tentatively propose that the lexical semantics of the verb underlying a participle may influence its relativizing potential. I also suggest that the relative pronoun kudo occurs more frequently in formal registers, such as scientific texts and Wikipedia articles, indicating that it may be associated with more formal varieties of written Meadow Mari.

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