E. N. MUHINA, T. N. POTAPOVA (Kovylkino, Russia). The location of the adverbial modifier in the modern Erzya and Finnish languages

The syntactic system in the Erzya and Finnish languages in comparative terms still remains insufficiently studied, in particular, regarding the syntactic location of such a minor part of a sentence as adverbial modifier. The relevance of the research topic is conditioned by the fact that in the Erzya and Finnish languages the location of adverbial modifiers depends not only on the purpose of the sentence and the part they refer to, but also on the parts of speech. The purpose of the work is to characterize and compare the location of adverbial modifier in the languages. The subject is the location of the adverbial modifier in the modern Erzya and Finnish languages.
The material of the study was the adverbial modifiers in the Finno-Ugric languages in simple and complex sentences. In the course of the study, a comparative method was used.
The research showed the following facts: from several adverbial modifier of time, the first place in the sentence is given to the adverbial modifier indicating a longer time period and the second one is to the adverbial modifier defining the former. If several adverbial modifiers are combined in one sentence, the adverbial modifier of time goes first, then there is an adverbial modifier of place.
In the studied languages, adverbial modifiers of manner, place, time, purpose can be found at the beginning of the sentence, and at the end.

Key words: theme; rema; syntax; word order; Erzya language; Finnish language; adverbial modifier; semantics; preposition; postposition; verb.

For citation: Muhina EN, Potapova TN. The location of the adverbial modifier in the modern Erzya and Finnish languages. Finno-ugorskii mir = Finno-Ugric World. 2018; 3: 64–69. (In Russian)