ATTRIBUTIVE POSSESSION IN UDMURT LANGUAGE.

Until now only two types of patterns have been regarded in the framework of attributive possession in Udmurt languages: NN+N, N-GEN+NPX. The pattern NAbl+NPX was considered as the variant of the latter. In the present paper I deal with possession in a wider sense which can be presented by wider range of patterns. Attributive constructions with elative, inessive also express possession. Furthermore, I observe attributive phrases with adverbial, instrumental, and dative which are not yet grammaticalized as possessive, but which have the tendency to express possessive relationships. The usage of these constructions depends on semantic and syntactic specificities as inalienable/alienable, inanimate/animated, whole/partial, indefinite/definite possession, and indirect/ direct object function of the possessee. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]