NP conjunction in Hill Mari

Irina Khomchenkova
Lomonosov Moscow State University / Vinogradov Russian Language Institute RAS

Abstract. This paper describes NP conjunction in Hill Mari, which can be realized with postpositions saga ‘near’, dono ‘with’ and coordinating conjunctions dä and don. I demonstrate that in constructions with postpositions and singular verbal agreement comitative phrase is a VP-adjunct. The construction with dä and plural verbal agreement is coordinating, and the construction with don and plural verbal agreement is an instance of comitative coordination, where a phrase with don is a NP-adjunct. The construction with dono and plural verbal agreement cannot be analyzed as comitative coordination, since comitative and central NPs do not form a constituent. A zero associative plural marker is projected to account for the plural verbal agreement.

Keywords: comitative, coordination, associative plural, syntax, Hill Mari, Finno-Ugric

For citation: Khomchenkova I. NP conjunction in Hill Mari. Typology of Morphosyntactic Parameters. 2018. Vol. 1, iss. 2. Pp. 134–152. (In Rus.)