New aspects in the study of Mari, Udmurt, and Komi-Permyak

The present paper provides a brief overview of the state of the art of an ongoing research project, the Typological Database of the Volga Area Finno-Ugric Languages focusing on three case studies. The database is a collection of updated research material from three Finno-Ugric languages of the Volga-Kama linguistic area, namely, Meadow Mari (Finno-Ugric, Uralic), Udmurt, and Komi-Permyak (Permic, Uralic). The case studies cover both morphological and syntactic properties of these languages. The paper is structured as follows: in section 1, we introduce the aims of the project and give an overview of the key notions of the database. Then we examine three research topics that are discussed in the database. Section 2 gives an overview of the encoding and usage of predicative possessive constructions in Udmurt. Section 3 addresses the topic of person marking on nominal adpositions in Meadow Mari, Udmurt, and Komi-Permyak. Finally, we examine the feature of reduplication in all three target languages in section 4, then in section 5, we summarize our findings