ИСТИНА

In our talk, we aim to discuss some empirical puzzles posed by possessive constructions of Beserman Udmurt (Permic < Uralic). In this language, the possessor (in a broad sense) is encoded with the genitive case, whereas the possessum typically bears the agreeing possessive suffix, cf. (1). Although the existence of genitive modifiers with different syntactic status was proposed for different Finno-Ugric languages (Jokinen 1991, Christen 2001; Pleshak 2018; Pleshak, Kholodilova 2023), this question in many respects remains open for Beserman Udmurt . Possessive genitive modifiers in Beserman Udmurt exhibit mixed properties: on the one hand, they seem to be located inside the noun phrase (nouns with distinct possessive modifiers can be coordinated (2); the clitic pe, which attaches to the first constituent, can appear after the possessor + noun sequence); on the other hand, they resemble external possessors in terms of (Payne, Barshi 1999: 3), as they can be separated from the possessum or associated with pronouns (3). Thus, we suggest that Beserman Udmurt allows the coexistence of both internal and external genitive possessors.