Elena Markus
List of John Benjamins publications in which Elena Markus is involved.
2017 Chapter 4. The essive in Votic Uralic Essive and the Expression of Impermanent State, Groot, Casper de (ed.), pp. 91–112 | Chapter
This chapter presents an empirical study of the distribution of a marker referred to as the ‘essive’ in Votic. The description of the properties of this marker follows the linguistic questionnaire that captures the contexts in which essive and/or translative markers may occur in the Uralic… read more
2017 Chapter 5. The essive in Ingrian Uralic Essive and the Expression of Impermanent State, Groot, Casper de (ed.), pp. 113–129 | Chapter
This chapter presents an empirical study of the distribution of a marker referred to as the ‘essive’ in Ingrian. The description of the properties of this marker follows the linguistic questionnaire that captures the contexts in which essive and/or translative markers may occur in the Uralic… read more
2015 Negation in contemporary Votic Negation in Uralic Languages, Miestamo, Matti, Anne Tamm and Beáta Wagner-Nagy (eds.), pp. 487–516 | Article
This paper describes negation in contemporary Votic – a near-extinct Finnic language. All the data come from fieldwork carried out in the last decade. We analyse different aspects of the negation system, including such typologically important features as expression of the person and number of the… read more
Soikkola Ingrian olla ‘to be’: Competition of morphological forms in the context of number agreement Journal of Uralic Linguistics: Online-First Articles | Article
The article examines number agreement in the verb olla ‘to be’ in the Soikkola dialect of Ingrian. Although Ingrian distinguishes two grammatical numbers, in the Soikkola dialect there is competition between three verb forms: singular, plural and impersonal. The aim of this study is to identify… read more