Morphological variations in the Erzya language newspaper texts of 20–30th of XX century
Mosin Mikhail V.,
Doctor of Philology, Head of the Department of Finno-Ugric and Comparative Linguistics, Ogarev Mordovia State University (Saransk, Russia), fac-phyl@adm.mrsu.ru
The article studies morphological variants in the texts of first newspapers published in 20–30th of XX century in the Erzya language. It analyses word-formative and derivational suffixes, their relation to numerous Erzya dialects and Erzya literary language.
Keywords: word-building; derivation; dialect; Erzya literary language; variant.
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