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OSSETIC AS A LANGUAGE WITH A TWO-CASE SYSTEM: SUSPENDED AFFIXATION AND OTHER PARADOXES OF CASE MARKING
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OSSETIC AS A LANGUAGE WITH A TWO-CASE SYSTEM: SUSPENDED AFFIXATION AND OTHER PARADOXES OF CASE MARKING
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S0373-658X0000339-5-1
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10.31857/SX0000339-5-1
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Oleg Belyaev 
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31-65
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This article deals with several problematic instances of case marking in Ossetic: suspendedaffixation, case government of the preposition n ‘without’, differential object marking, thedistribution of the forms of Iron krzi ‘each other’ in the functions of direct object and possessor. Ishow that the assignment of case in these constructions is determined by the structure of the paradigmof the dependent lexeme. The distribution of different wordforms in these syntactic environments isexplained by decomposing case in Ossetic into two categories: “morphological case” (m-case), assignedto wordforms, which has only two values, direct and oblique, and “group case” (g-case), assigned toNPs, which includes all the oblique case values distinguished for Ossetic. M-case corresponds tocase in languages which do not allow suspended affixation, such as Russian and Latin, while g-casecorresponds to case categories in languages that do have suspended affixation, such as Turkic. Thecoexistence of these two categories within a single language may imply that they should also bedistinguished in typological perspective. The data of Ossetic are compared to similar phenomena inother languages: Eastern Armenian, Indo-Aryan, Kalmyk, and Tocharian A. The analysis is formalizedin terms of Lexical Functional Grammar.
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morphology, case, suspended affi xation, paradigm, Lexical Functional Grammar, Ossetic
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