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Gianguido Manzelli
University of Pavia, Italy; gianguido.manzelli@unipv.it
Predicative possession and a possible contact-induced phenomenon among Finnic and East Slavic languages: having a headache between the Baltic Sea and the sources of the Volga River
Predicative possession is a much studied topic but much must still be done if one takes into account the extension of this kind of predication to certain semantic areas such as experiential constructions. This paper has the modest ambition to explore the possibility of using the expression of having a headache in Finnic and East Slavic languages as an interesting piece of evidence to be seriously considered as regards the vexed question of the origin of the adessive-like possessor in Russian.
Key-words: predicative possession, experiential constructions, Finnic languages, East Slavic languages, language contact.
1. Introduction1
The inspiration for this article were two papers by Ilya A. Serzant (Serzant & Bjarnadottir 2014; Serzant 2015) where the Baltic, Russian and Finnic experiential expressions for having a headache or something similar played a key role. I am not concerned here with the morphology of verbal forms, brilliantly analyzed in the aforementioned papers, i.e. the presence of an "unexpected" *-o- grade in the verbal base and a stative marker *-e- in Baltic and Slavic (Lithuanian sk-a-ud-e-ti 'ache', Latvian s-a-p-e-t 'idem', Russian b-o-l'-e-t' 'idem', Serzant & Bjarnadottir 2014: 221-235; Serzant 2015: 332, footnote 5, 334). Rather I am interested in the Experiencer expressed by an "adessive-like PP [Prepositional Phrase]" (Serzant 2015: 328) as in Russian у меня болит голова / u menja botit golova 'I have a headache' compared with the adessive case of Estonian mul valutab pea 'idem' and Finnish minulla sarkee paa 'idem' (Serzant 2015: 333), i.e. with the same structure used in the standard predicative possession, cf. Russian у меня (есть) новый дом / u menja (est') novyj dom 'I have (got) a new house' and Estonian mul on uus maja 'idem' and Finnish minulla on uusi talo 'idem'. While Serzant and Bjarnadottir have focused their attention on the dative (dat) constructions which one finds in the Baltic languages such as Lithuanian and Latvian and in one Finnic language such as Livonian2,
1 I am very grateful to Paola Cotticelli Kurras and her staff for their hospitality during the conference "Beyond Lexicon: Diachronic language contact on the structural and systemic level" in Verona (Italy) where I presented a provisional version of this paper (22th of April, 2017). In that occasion I got acquainted with Ilya Yakubo-vich: I am grateful to him and to George Starostin for their hospitality in this journal. Moreover, I am indebted to an anonymous reviewer for signalling some shortcomings in my paper and suggesting to mention an important volume such as Bricyn et al. eds. (2009). Abbreviations are written according to the Leipzig Glossing Rules (https://www.eva.mpg.de/lingua/pdf/Glossing-Rules.pdf) with some adaptations.
2 "Livonian, in turn, has a dative case in -n in its Curonian dialect (historically stemming from the genitive and essive) and a second dative in -l in the Salis dialect representing a merger of the former adessive and allative case [...] Morphologically different cases that are inherently linked to the semantic domain of dative case will be
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spoken in the Courland peninsula in days gone by3, my aim was and is to enlarge the frame and collect more data from all the sources available to me. My first step was a paper written in Italian I presented during a meeting of Slavists ("Linguistica slava 6") on the island of Procida (Gulf of Naples) in 2016 (Manzelli 2017). In the title of that paper I contrasted Russian u menja bolit golova 'I have a headache' with Bulgarian boli me glavata 'idem' because all the South and West Slavic languages have an Experiencer in the accusative, unlike Russian, Belorussian (Bel-arusian) and Ukrainian (Belorussian admits also a dative Experiencer, Ukrainian admits both a dative and an accusative Experiencer as in Middle Russian, see, for Ukrainian, Serzant & Bjar-nadottir 2014: 231). I considered this fact a good starting point to scrutinize the old issue4 of whether the adessive-like prepositional phrase for the possessor in East Slavic predicative possession is due to a Finno-Ugric (more precisely: Finnic / Baltic-Finnic / Balto-Finnic)5 influence or vice versa6. Whereas Serzant took into account the Baltic (Lithuanian and Latvian) and the East Slavic languages (Old Russian, Middle Russian, Modern Russian, and Ukrainian)7 and three Finnic languages (Livonian, Estonian and Finnish), I extended my research to more minor Finnic languages, such as Votian or Votic, Ingrian8, Karelian Proper (North Karelian and South Karelian, the latter also around Tver), Olonets/Aunus Karelian or Livvi (between Lake Ladoga and Lake Onega, towards Lake Ladoga), Ludic Karelian (between Lake Ladoga and Lake Onega, towards Lake Onega) and Veps or Vepsian (in the area south of Lake Ladoga, Lake Onega and Lake Beloye)9. In this paper I have had to sacrifice my ambition to include more languages (such as other Finno-Ugric languages, more Indo-European groups such as the Germanic group as well as the Indo-Iranian macro-group - represented by Romani and Ossetic -, and finally, the Turkic languages of the Volga-Kama region), i.e. the languages spoken (or once spoken) in the huge area stretching from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea.
referred to in this chapter as dat in order to highlight the structural correspondences across these languages and leave aside the morphological discrepancies." (Serzant 2015: 327). One could argue about the definition of Salis Livonian -l as a second dative because it preserved the -l element meaning 'next to', cf., e.g. Finnish adessive -lla/-lla, allative -lle [lle?], and ablative -lta/-lta, clearly exhibiting the sequence of two suffixes, thus adessive -lla/-lla is the outcome of -l- + -na/-na essive or generic locative as in kotona (koto-na) 'at home' (see, e.g., Judakin 1997: 42) etc. As for the problem of a datival genitive in old Finnish (16th c. CE) see Inaba (2015) and section 6.
3 The last speaker of Livonian (with Livonian as L1), Grizelda Kristin (Latvian Kristina), née Bertholde, died in Canada in 2013 at the age of 103. Her cousin Viktor Berthold (Latvian Viktors Bertholds) had already died in Courland (Kurzeme) in 2009. The other Livonian variety mentioned by Serzant (2015: 327, 328), the Salis (Latvian Salaca) dialect was still spoken by 22 persons at the mouth of the river Salis in 1846 (Décsy 1965: 77). That variety perhaps disappeared in the 1860s, see Winkler & Pajusalu (2009) and Grunthal (2015).
4 The issue was debated in the 1960s by Veenker (1967), Décsy (1967), and Kiparsky (1969), and mentioned as a highly controversial question in the volume specifically devoted to contact linguistics by Thomason & Kaufman (1988: 238-246), see also, for the lack of a verb 'have' in the Baltic Sprachbund, Thomason (2001: 110).
5 English also Fennic languages, German ostseefinnische Sprachen, Russian прибалтийско-финские языки / pribaltijsko-finskie jazyki, Hungarian balti finn nyelvek, Finnish itamerensuomalaiset kielet, Estonian laanemeresoome keeled.
6 Winkler (2003: 205) and Honti (2007: 29) are very skeptical about the connection between the Russian adessive-like PP and the Finnic adessive as a contact-induced phenomenon but they do not exclude the possibility of a Russian influence on the Finnic languages!
7 As regards "dative-like marked experiencers in a subject-like position" Serzant (2015: 325) makes mention of Scandinavia, (Low) German, Polish and Belarusian.
8 Though pertaining to two different Finnic subgroups, Votian (Votic) is a southern or western Finnic language while Ingrian is a northern or eastern Finnic language, both are or, better, were spoken in Ingria (Swedish Ingermanland, Estonian Inçeri, Finnish Inkeri, Russian Ижора / Izora), the region between Estonia and Saint Petersburg.
9 The first document written in a Finnic language (probably a form of Karelian), dating back to 1240-1260 ca., was found among the birch bark letters discovered in old Novgorod (grâmota 292), see Xelimskij (2000b: 342-344).
2. The historical framework
Roman, Byzantine, Persian and Arabic sources give us only scanty details as regards what happened in the first millenium CE in the area of the Volga basin. More detailed, but starting only from the 9th century, is the so-called Russian Primary Chronicle (known in Russian as Повесть временных лет / Pdvest' vremennyx let 'Tale of past / bygone years', earlier as Нестерова летопись / Nestorova letopis' 'Nestor's Chronicle'). Actually, we do not have the original copy but only later compilations such as the Laurentian Chronicle written by the monk Lavrentij in 1377 and the Hypatian Chronicle (end of the 1420s). However, as for the ethnic makeup of eastern Europe, the Russian chronicles provide a lot of interesting and valuable information. A good example is the following passage (Hypatian Chronicle 1908: col. 4r):
Въ Афетов1 же части сЬдить Русь. Чюдь. и вси газыцЪ Мерл Мурома. Всь. Мордва. Заволочь-скага Чюдь. Пермь. Печера. Ммь. Югра. Литва. Зимигола. Корсь. СЬтьгола. Либь. ЛлховЪ же и Пруси. и Чюдь присЬдлть к морю Влрлскому.
Transliteration (my italics):
V" Afetov'i ze casti sedit' Rus'. Cjud'. i vsi j^zyce MergMuroma. Vs'. Mordva. Zavoloc'ska Cjud'. Perm'. Pecera. Jgm'. Jugra. Litva. Zimigola. Kors'. Set'gola, Lib'. L^xove ze i Prusi. i Cjud'. prised^t' k morju V^r^skomu.
English translation (based on the Laurentian Chronicle,10 Finno-Ugric names in italic characters):
In the share of Japheth lies Rus', Chud', and all the gentiles: Merya, Muroma, Ves', Mordva, Chud' beyond the portages, Perm', Pechera, Yam', Ugra, Litva, Zimegola, Kors', Let'gola and Liv'. The Lyakhs, the Prussians, and Chud' border on the Varangian Sea11.
Leaving aside for the moment the ethnic interpretation of Rus' '(Old) Russians', in this passage most of the ethnonyms and place names are Finno-Ugric, such as Cjud', Chud12, probably here both Ingrians and Votes, Merg (i.e. Merja), Merya or Merians, an extinct ethnos living in the area of Moscow13, Murom, Muroma, another extinct ethnic group living in the Oka basin, Vs', Ves, i.e. Veps or Vepsians14, Mordva, i.e. Mordvins (today speakers of Erzya and Moksha), Perm', Finno-Ugric place name (etymologically connected with the Permian linguistic group now represented by three official languages: Komi or Komi-Zyrian, Permyak
10 Even though the Laurentian Chronicle is the oldest extant manuscript, it is less detailed and sometimes more corrupted than the later Hypatian Chronicle. It seems to me that Cross & Sherbowitz-Wetzor (1953) took into account the Hypatian variants because they have Liv' for the Livonians, but the Laurentian version has Любь (Ljub') instead of Либь (Lib').
11 Cross & Sherbowitz-Wetzor (1953: 52). A Czech translation of the same passage by Karel Jaromir Erben (published in 1867 and in second edition in 1954) is found in Blazek et al. (2011: 206): "V Jafetove pak casti sedi Rusi, Cudi a tito narodove: Mera, Muroma, Vesi, Mordva, Zavlacska Cud', Permi, Pecera, Jami, Ugra, Litva, Zimegola, Krsi, Letigola, Livi; Lechove pak a Prusi. Cudove prisedi k mori Varazskemu" (authors' bold).
12 According to Kallio (2015: 91-93, footnotes 15-16) the popular derivation of Russian Чудь / Cud' from Gothic piuda 'people' must be abandoned in favour of a Norse origin (Runic Swedish piup, Old Norse piod 'people') and even a chain like the following one could be conceived: East Norse *^jud > Chud *cuuti 'people' > Russian Чудь / Cud' 'Chud'.
13 According to Tkacenko (2007: 56-58, 115, 122 and 283-284) the name of Moskva River (Russian Москва-река / Moskva-reka), hence the name of Moscow (Москва / Moskva), is due to Merja *moska or *moskd or *mosko 'hemp', cf. Erzya мушко / musko 'idem', Moksha мушка / muska 'fibre; bundle of hemp fibres', Mari муш / mus 'hemp, bundle of hemp fibres'.
14 Notice that also the Vepsian language was called in Russian чудский / cudskij up to the October Revolution, see the first Vepsian glossary by Uspenskij (1913).
and Udmurt), Jçm\ place name, probably Finnish Hame (Tavastia)15. Jugra, ancestors of Hungarians, Mansi (Voguls) and Khanty (Ostyaks), the latter now living only beyond the Urals along the Ob River, and Lib', Livonians, ancient inhabitants of Latvia (see section 1.). The other ethnonyms regard mainly the Baltic group, Litva (Lithuanians), Zimigola (Semgallians), Kors' (Curonians), Sët'gola (uncorrect initial consonant S for L of Lettigallians or Latgalians), Prusi (extinct Baltic Prussians), while Lçxovë, Lyakhs, are the ancestors of the Poles. The Varangian Sea16 is the Baltic Sea named after the North Germanic people of the Varangians (Varyags, Vikings), ancestors of the Swedes.
As for the origin of the name Rus' a simple sentence in the Primary Chonicle (Hypatian Chronicle 1908: col. 9v) is telling:
и бЪша оу него СловЪни. и В(а)рлзи. и прочии прозвашасл Русью. Transliteration:
i besa ou nego Sloveni. i V(a)rçzi. i procii prozvasasç Rus'ju. English translation (based on the Laurentian Chronicle):
The Slavs, Varangians, and others who accompanied him, were called Rus'. (Cross & Sherbowitz-
Wetzor 1953: 61).
The real meaning of Rus' is much debated by historians, see, for instance, Duczko (2004), Lind (2006), Plokhy (2006) and Puzanov (2007). Unfortunately, sometimes historians are not able to distinguish Finnic as a linguistic group from Finnish, a language belonging to the group of the same name. On the Finnic side it is sure that Finnish Ruotsi and Estonian Rootsi mean 'Sweden', but Ingrian distinguishes rotsi 'Lutheran' from rotsa 'Russian (person)', while Karelian ruottsi means both 'Finn' and 'Lutheran' and Ludic ruots has a gamut of meanings including 'Lutheran', 'Finland' and 'Sweden', and so on (see SSA III: 108 where the etymon is Old Swedish rops-)17. The name for Russia is in Finnish Venaja, in dialects Venat, Venah and Ven(n)aa, cf. Estonian vene 'Russian (person)' and Venemaa 'Russia', from Germanic *weneâ-, already attested in Tacitus (Venethi), see SSA III: 426, and Bjornflaten (2006: 73), i.e. a widespread Indo-European ethnonym, still surviving in place names such as Venezia 'Venice' in Italy and Vendée in France18.
The confusion between the ethnic groups can also be seen in the name given to the Votes, cf. Finnish vatja, Votic vad'ja, Estonian vadja 'Votian language'. If Jorma Koivulehto is right in hypothesizing *vakja from Baltic *vakia 'lânnessâ oleva maa [a land lying in the West]' (SSA III: 418), the Finnic words correspond to Latvian Vacija and Lithuanian Vôkia 'Germany', whereas according to Fraenkel (1965: II, 1272, s.v. Vôkia 'Deutschland'), Finnish Vuojola and Estonian Oju- or Ojamaa 'Gotland (island)' come from the same Baltic root. In this regard place names are a very important clue to earlier ethnic and linguistic situations or to the results of foreign
15 Finnish Hame corresponds to Lappish (Sami) sabme 'lappalainen, lapin kieli [Lapp, Lappish language]' but a Baltic source is unlikely (SSA I: 207). Archaeology and historical information can demonstrate that most of
Finland was originally a Sami territory.
16 Cf. Arabic ^jjj j^; bahr Warank 'Baltic Sea' in the Iranian polymath al-Biruni (973-1050 CE), see, e.g., Pinto (2016: 28).
17 A well-informed and innovative approach to the origin of Rus', compared with Byzantine Greek Pwg / Rhds and Semitic (Arabic, Syriac) forms etc., is found in Danylenko (2004) but the question is still open. Roberge (2010: 420) mentions for rus only Finnish Ruotsi 'Sweden' and Old Norse roffr 'rowing'.
18 The name of Veneti has been particularly studied by Italian linguists such as Giacomo Devoto (1897-1974), Giovan Battista Pellegrini (1921-2007), and Aldo Luigi Prosdocimi (1941-2016), see Ramat (2005).
influence. The old capital of Finland carries the name of Turku (Swedish Abo), a fine example of Slavic influence because of Old Russian търгъ / tйrgй 'market' > Modern Russian торг / torg 'barter' (Vasmer 1958: III, 123-124, s.v. торг), cf. the Finnish common noun turku 'market place' (a sophisticated and poetic word, Papp 1978: 882)19. What is remarkable is the Finnish preservation as u [u] of Slavic jem, i.e. *й (Cyrillic ъ), both strong (> Russian o) and weak (> Russian zero) as in common nouns such as Finnish lusikka 'spoon' from Old Russian лъжькг/ lMika > Modern Russian ложка / lozka 'idem'20 with loss of weak jeri, i.e. *i (Cyrillic ь) -, while strong jeri became e in Russian -. Its counterpart is the Russian river name Msta (tributary of Lake Ilmen, Novgorod Oblast) from *Mйsta < Finnic musta (Finnish musta, Estonian must) 'black' (Vasmer 1955: II, 168, s.v. Мста; Xelimskij 2000a: 330)21.
In this historical context it is worth mentioning the figure of Alexander Yaroslavich Nevsky - Russian Александр Ярославич Невский / Aleksandr Jaroslavic Nevskij (1221-1263) -, Prince of Novgorod, Grand Prince of Kiev and Grand Prince of Vladimir. He gained his Finnic sobriquet Невский / Nevskij thanks to his victory against a Swedish invasion in the Neva battle (1240) at the confluence of the rivers Izhora and Neva. Izhora (Old Russian Ижера / Izera) was at the same time the name of a river and that of the Finnic population (Ingrians) who supported the young Prince Alexander, while Swedes counted on auxiliary troops recruited among Tavastians (i.e. the inhabitants of Hame in Finland). The Russian nickname Nevskij is based on the name of the famous river (Russian Нева / Neva) now crossing Saint Petersburg: its etymology is clearly Finnic22, cf. Finnish neva 'open treeless marsh; river' and Karelian neva 'water, body of water (lake, river, sea)', see SSA II: 215. Two years later Prince Alexander defeated the German (and Danish) Livonian Knights who were supported by Chud (i.e. Estonian) infantry in the Battle on the Ice (1242), on Lake Peipus, actually, on the lake named Lammijarv in Estonian ('warm lake' - Russian Тёплое озеро / Tëploe ozero - between Lake Peipsi - Russian Чудское озеро / Cudskoe ozero - and Lake Pskov): also on that occasion Prince Alexander could count on the help of Finnic troops in the service of the Republic of Novgorod23.
3. Predicative possession
From a typological point of view the reference text for possession is now Heine (1997) who has distinguished 8 cognitive schemata on the basis of a 100 language sample. At least 3-4 schemata conform to the possessive constructions which can be found in the area under scrutiny: (1) the Action Schema, namely "X takes Y" with X possessor and Y possessee (Heine 1997: 4750), in other words the use of a have-verb like Russian иметь / met 'to have'; (2) the Location Schema, "Y is located at X" (Heine 1997: 50-53), cf. Russian у / u + gen of the possessor; (3) the Goal Schema, "Y exists for/to X" (Heine 1997: 59-61)24 when the possessor is in a dat form, cf.
19 SSA III: 335; Bjornflaten (2006: 63); Kallio (2006: 155).
20 SSA II: 113; Xelimskij (2000a: 330); Kallio (2006: 155); Koivulehto (2006: 180), Dolgorukova (2015: 7, 9, 12, 13, 18, 23. 41).
21 In 2015 the fourth volume of Субстратная топонимия Русского Севера / Substratnaja toponimija Russkogo Severa (Substratal toponymy of North Russia) edited by A. K. Matveev (1926-2010) appeared posthumous (Mat-veev 2015). The previous volumes were published in Ekaterinburg in 2001, 2004 e 2007. See also Saarikivi (2006).
22 For other opinions see Kallio (2015: 89-90, footnote 12).
23 As for Alexander Nevsky see Pasuto (1995).
24 Russian u menja masina 'I have a car' is mentioned in Heine & Kuteva (2005: 230) but not in connection with Finnish.
the Russian experiential expression мне холодно / mne (1sg.dat) xólodno 'I'm cold'25 or, better, for concrete possession, Latvian man (1sg.dat) ir jauna maja 'I have a new house' (litt.: 'to.me is new house'). The substantial volume (830 pages) by Stassen (2009) is specifically devoted to predicative possession (with indefinite possessee) on the basis of a sample of 420 languages. Stassen halves Heine's schemata reducing them to 4 (Locational Possessive, With-Possessive, Topic Possessive, Have-Possessive) and in the Locational Possessive he brings together both static cases such as locative, adessive and inessive, and dynamic cases corresponding to dative and allative (Stassen 2009: 48-54), in other words including Heine's Goal Schema. But I argue that the distinction between adess and dat (merged by Leon Stassen and by Ilya A. Serzant as well) is crucial as regards the predicative possession in Finnic and Russian26.
4. Predicative possession in the Slavic languages
A typological discussion about predicative possession in Slavic languages as regards the relationship between be-verbs and have-verbs was initiated by Isacenko (1974)27. All Slavic languages possess the modern forms of Proto-Slavic *jíméti (*jbmeti, Trubacev 1981: VIII, 226-227; Derksen 2008: 211-212) 'to have' (originally 'to take, to hold'), but in Russian the use of иметь / imét' is limited to abstract possession (Timberlake 1993: 875; Timberlake 2004: 311312), and "is also a useful alternative to locative possessives under special syntactic conditions where the latter option is impossible, e.g. imperative sentences and infinitives embedded under volitional and modal verbs" (Koptjevskaja-Tamm & Walchli 2001: 676). Thus, Old Russian имЪти / imeti 'to have' has become Modern Russian иметь / imét', Belorussian мець / mee' (Mayo 1993: 934-935) and Ukrainian мати / máty (Shevelov 1993: 987-988), but a sentence expressing concrete possession as Russian я имею новый дом / ja iméju nóvyj dom 'I have a new house' is unusual in respect of у меня (есть) новый дом / u menjá (est') nóvyj dom, while in Belorussian я маю новы дом / ja máju nóvy dom and in Ukrainian я маю новий будинок / ja máju novyj budynok are just as acceptable as Belorussian у мяне (ёсць) новы дом / u mjané (ése') nóvy dom and Ukrainian у мене e новий будинок / u méne je novyj budynok28, respectively29. In a paper of hers McAnallen (2009: 133) mentions the three constructions for expressing predicative possession: (1) Old Church Slavonic (OCS) iméti, Czech mit, Polish miec etc. 'to have', (2) u + gen and (3) dat. As for u + gen McAnallen gives four examples, one in OCS,
25 Romanian mi-e frig 'I'm cold' is a perfect equivalent to Russian (with Romanian mi 1sg.dat), while Italian ho freddo, French j'ai froid, Catalan tinc fred, Spanish tengo frío, Galician teño frío exhibit the have-strategy and Portuguese estou com frio (litt.: 'I stay with cold') has a comitative solution. This kind of expressions were studied by our misfortunate colleague Regina Pustet (1963-2013) in a paper devoted to the syntax of temperature predications (Pustet 2015).
26 The adessive construction in Russian is mentioned by Stassen (2009: 8, 51, 282), together with or independently from the similar Finnish and Estonian constructions (Stassen 2009: 39, 51, 129, 297).
27 See Dingley (1995); Danylenko (2002); Clancy (2010).
28 In Ukrainian the original distinction between the prepositions у / u ("adessive", from Proto-Indo-European *au) and в / v ("inessive/illative", from IE *n) got lost already in the 14th-15th c. (Slyn'ko 1980: 243), cf. в Ольги немае грошей / v Ól'hy nemáje groséj 'Ol'ha has no money', as in в мене e... / v méne je ...'I have ...' (Pugh & Press 2005: 111), beside у мене e брат / u méne je brát (Zahnitko 2001: 276) 'I have a brother'.
29 Notice that the Ukrainian short existential e / je 'there is' is pratically compulsory. In Belorussian the rules connected with the conditions for the presence or absence of the existential ёсць / ese' are quite complicated according to Krivickij et al. (1978: 314-317). As for the conditions of omission or not of the existential есть / est' in Russian see Isacenko (1974: 56-58) and Timberlake (2004: 313-315).
one in Old Czech and two in Old Russian (one from the Primary Chronicle - therefore not in pure Russian - and the other from a Novgorodian birch-bark letter). I think that the most interesting example is a passage in OCS from Matthew 18:12 ("if a man owns a hundred sheep") where for the possessor Codex Assemanianus (Glagolitic, 11th c.) has u + gen in ou etera cl(ove)ka, but Codex Marianus (Glagolitic, beginning of the 11th c.) has a possessive dat: eterou cl(ove)kou (McAnallen 2009: 133 and footnote 3). However, Vaillant (1977: 126, § 1342) considered u etera cloveka a locative noun phrase, and he translated the sentence into French in this way: "s'il y a chez quelque homme 100 brebis" (but see Grgovic-Major 2011: 43, footnote 32), cf.30:
am,e 6&gerb oy eTepa Hnka •p oBe^
aste bgdetu ou etera cl(ove)ka .r. oveci
if be.prf-3sg at certain-gen man-gen 100 sheep-gen.pl 'if a man owns a hundred sheep'
Grgovic-Major (2011: 47) gives an example of u + genitive in Old Serbian "but it was a peripheral predicative possession patterning"31. Julia McAnallen has collected more data in her PhD dissertation (134 pages), discussing the issue of internal development vs. language contact for the expression of predicative possession and dealing with details (e.g. verb agreement or animacy) which are here disregarded (see data in many languages, not only in Finnic, Baltic and all the Slavic languages, in McAnallen 2011: 128-134). Stern (2011) has dealt with language contact in the East and the Northeast of Europe: starting from Veenker (1967) he mentions seven structural features which can be due to a Finnic influence on East Slavic, including the adessive construction for the expression of possessivity, cf. Russian u menja knig-a (book-nom) and Finnish minulla on kirja 'I have a book' (Stern 2011: 382, bold is mine). Stern (ibidem) compares and contrasts Russian with Ukrainian, which allows a broader use of a have-verb, thus, Ukrainian exhibits u mene knyh-a (book-nom) alongside ja ma-ju (have-1sg.PRS) knih-u (book-acc). In another dissertation and in a forthcoming article of his the young Thai scholar Chingduang Yurayong has focussed on hypotheses concerning the origin of the possessive predication of the type with adessive-like possessor in Russian (scrutinizing the birch bark documents found in Novgorod), wondering whether (1) it is an original Slavic construction (as in Isacenko 1974), or (2) it is due to a Finnic substratum (as in Veenker 1967 and Kiparsky 1969), or (3) a contact-induced change according to the "Refrigerator Theory" (Finnish jaakaap-piteoria, Yurayong 2013: 27), cf.:
Dingley (1995) applies to this question Gunnar Jacobsson's Refrigerator Theory (Germ. Kuhlschrank-theorie). This concept of contact-induced change means certain language features have been preserved or literally "frozen" in a safe cold place, that is, in neighbouring languages. According to Dingley — and later also McAnallen (2009) and Grkovic-Major (2011) — the original Proto-Slavic PredP [= Predicative Possession] looked similar to Modern Russian at least until 6th century. Then, East Slavs who encountered Finno-Ugric people took along with them the old construction, which happened to be similar to that in Finno-Ugric languages. On the eastern side of the Baltic Sea, the original construction was safely protected from the innovation of multifunctional habeo-verb, which took place in the nuclear Europe and in which the other Slavic sister languages have participated. As a result in those Slavic languages, the original locative PredP was replaced by the habeo-verb, which has become the primary choice today. (Yurayong, forthcoming, ms. p. 5)
30 Reading of the Old Cyrillic script (transliterated from Glagolitic) and glossing are mine. The same sentence is mentioned in Latin transcription by McAnallen (2011: 4).
31 Browne (1993: 370) claims that in Serbo-Croatian u + gen with the meaning of 'in the possession of' "is now rare" (even with a locational value), cf. u lUzi su kratke noge (proverb), litt.: 'a lie has short legs' (i.e. 'the truth eventually comes out') and u Mllice (su) duge trepavice (folk poetry) 'Milica has long eyelashes'.
According to Timberlake (2014: 1680) the first evidence of u + gen to express concrete possession is found in Novgorodian Russian, cf. у кого конЬ / u kogo kone [...] 'some people have horses [...]' (gramota 242), whereas the have-verb (i.e. имееши/ imeesi, 2sg.PRS 'you have') seems to be used only once in a text partially influenced by Church Slavonic (gramota 752)32. The Russian u + gen construction could be of "West Finnic" origin but Timberlake (2014: 1681) is puzzled by its widespread diffusion, not only in the northern Russian dialects, but in the southern dialects as well, and in the literary language. In the same volume Haarmann (2014: 1196-1197) considers it likely that the u + gen possessive construction is the outcome of a Finno-Ugric substratum in a social framework of extensive bilingualism. Finally, a balanced judgement about this issue is found in Mazzitelli (2015), a monograph devoted to predicative possession in Belarusian (Belorussian) and Lithuanian where the question of the origin of the East Slavic adessive possessor is taken into account.
5. Predicative possession in the Finno-Ugric (Uralic) languages
As for predicative possession the members of the Uralic language family are predominantly be-languages with some amazing exceptions (i.e. the Siberian Ugric and Samoyedic languages). Adnominal (attributive) and predicative possession in Uralic languages are especially dealt with by Kangas-Minn (1984), Winkler (2003), Kozmács (2006), and Honti (2007), briefly by Abondolo (1997: 33) and Laakso (2011: 194-195)33. As already mentioned above (section 1, footnote 6) as regards the relationship between Russian u + gen and Finnic adess (Finnish -llal-lla) both Winkler (2003: 205) and Honti (2007: 29) are sceptical, though they do not exclude a possible Russian influence on the Finnic languages. In the case of inanimate possessors Finnish opts for the inessive case, cf. autossa (iness) on nelja pyoraa 'the car has four wheels' (Karlsson 1999: 69), whereas Estonian admits the adessive case also with inanimate possessors, e.g. autol (adess) on neli ratast 'the car has four wheels' (Erelt 2003: 94). However, Yurayong (forthcoming, ms. pp. 8-9) points out that an inanimate noun, for example institution, may obtain possessive function in the adessive, but location in the inessive (Table 1, glosses by the author):
Table 1
Finnish
Suomella on hyva koulutusjarjestelma Finland.adess be.3sg good educational_system 'Finland (as a state) has a good educational system.' vs.
Suomessa on hyva koulutusjarjestelma. Finland.lness be.3sg good educational_system 'In Finland there is a good educational system.'
Aet Lees has made an interesting analysis (based mainly on Biblical texts) comparing case alternations in 5 Finnic languages (Estonian, Finnish, Karelian, Livonian and Vepsian), see possessive clauses and experiential clauses (with examples for hunger and thirst) in Lees (2015: 361-373, 373-375).
32 The Novgorodian document (gramota) number 242 is found in the D25 section in Zaliznjak (2004: 673-674), therefore it is a late document (from the 1420s), while the love letter in gramota 752 (A11 section) dates back to 1080-1100 or to 1100-1140 (Zaliznjak 2004: 249-254). Yurayong (2013) gives reliable statistics concerning the distribution of adess, have-verb and dat possessive constructions in Novgorodian Russian.
33 For in-depth reflections about language contact situations involving Finno-Ugric see Laakso (2010).
6. Dative in Finnish?
In my paper (Manzelli 2017: 194, footnote 11) I touched upon the question whether an experiential construction such as Finnish minun on jano34 'I'm thirsty' really corresponds to the Genitive Schema, "X's Y exists" (Heine 1997: 58-59), just because minun has the same form as the genitive of mina (1sg) 'I' as in minun taloni 'my house (litt.: of-me house-my)'. The existence of the Finnish expression Jumalan kiitos 'thanks (kiitos) God (Jumala)' casts doubt as to whether -n is a real gen35. On that occasion I mentioned only the English version of Hakulinen (1961: 68-69), but here much more can be said. In his Finnish grammar Bubrix (1955: 13) wondered about the meaning of expressions such as minun on kiire = Russian я спешу / ja spesu 'I'm in a hurry' - quoted also by Inaba (2015: 232) - without mentioning the synonymous Finnish minulla on kiire (Lehtinen 1962: 122), which is a perfect predicative possessive sentence in Finnish (cf. Italian ho fretta - a have-verb expression - vs. French je suis pressé - a be-verb expression where be is a copula -'I'm in a hurry'). Bubrix (1955: 14) also mentions a sentence in the language of Finnish poetry where -n is equivalent to allative -lle, Finnish anna katta kayvan miehen = Russian дай руку идущему человеку / daj ruku iduscemu celovéku 'give a hand to the walking man', in Standard Finnish anna katta kayvalle miehelle (miehe-lle is the allative case of mies 'man'). This topic has recently been dealt with in a substantial book of 413 pages written in Finnish by the Japanese researcher Nobofumi Inaba, Suomen datiivigenitiivin juuret vertailevan menetelman valossa (The roots of the Finnish datival genitive in the light of the comparative method). Inaba (2015: 26-43) takes into consideration four possibile hypotheses for the origin of the anomalous Finnish -n on the basis of the previous literature: (1) a genitive-instructive connective; (2) a derivational suffix for adjectives; (3) an apocopated locative; (4) a lative. Inaba does not only deal with the Finnish datival genitive but also with similar cases in Livonian, South Saami (Lappish), Mordvinian and Mari, and Swedish. The real origin of the Finnish datival genitive -n is not relevant for our purpose, what is impressive is the old Finnish (16th c.) rendering of a famous Biblical sentence (i.e. Matthew 22:21):
Greek ÂnoSoxe ouv та Kaiaapoç Kaiaaçi ка1 та той 0£oû тф 0£à> Apôdote oûn tà Kaisaros Kaisari kai tà toû Theoû tôi Theôi
Latin Reddite quae sunt Caesaris Caesari et quae sunt Dei Deo
English Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's
Russian итак отдавайте кесарево кесарю, а Божие Богу itâk otdavâjte késarevo késarju, a Bôzie Bogu
translated into Finnish by Mikael Agricola (Se Wsi Testamenti 'The New Testament', 1543, published in 1548) in this way36:
Finnish Andaca Keisarin mite Keisarin tule / ia JVMALAN mite JVMALAN tule37
34 In this case Estonian exhibits the use of adessive: mul on janu + Finnish minun on jano (Alvre 1993: 60).
35 I could have been misled by my mother tongue because the equivalent to Finnish Jumalan kiitos is in Italian grazie a Dio (litt.: 'thanks to God'), i.e. giving rise to a dat interpretation, but cf. also the Hungarian translation hala Istennek (Isten-nek dat of Isten 'God') in Papp (1978: 268). Moreover, the Finno-Ugric acc marker *-m has become -n in Finnish, i.e. perfectly identical to the gen marker -n (hence the definition of genitive-accusative used by some linguists for Finnish -n as a case marker). However, Nobofumi Inaba (see below in this section) gives Ju-malalle kiitos (Jumala-lle: allative of Jumala 'God') as an equivalent to Jumalan kiitos (Inaba 2015: 34).
36 Mark (12:17) in Inaba (2015: 358 (128)).
37 All the forms in old Finnish are datival genitives because the counterpart of the verb antaa 'to give' is the verb tulla 'to come' (mite Keisarin tule = litt.: 'what to Caesar comes').
whereas in a Finnish translation published in 1992 one finds:
Finnish Antakaa siis keisarille, mika keisarin on, ja Jumalalle, mika Jumalan on38
Thus, it seems to me that for experiential constructions such as Finnish minun on nalka 'I'm hungry' there exists the possibility that the present day genitive could have originally been the "datival genitive" studied by Inaba (2015). This impression is strengthened by the fact that Finnish has a construction such as minun tulee nalka 'megehezem, megeheztem [I get hungry, I got hungry]' (Papp 1978: 475) with tulee 3sg(PRS) of tulla 'to come', a motion verb which seems to be constructed with a dat (cf. Italian mi viene fame and Albanian me vjen uri 'I get hungry', with venire 'to come' and vij 'idem', respectively39) instead of a gen, cf. the corresponding use of ALLAT in Kven (Kainu), the Finnish dialect spoken in Norway, as in Liisale tuli kylma (Soderholm 2017: 133) 'Liisa got cold', alongside the adess in minula oon vilu (Soder-holm 2017: 447) 'I'm cold'40. Thus, the sentence minun on kiire 'I'm in a hurry' could be considered the antecedent to Finnish minulla on kiire 'idem', cf. Estonian mul on kiire 'idem' (Alvre 1993: 60), expressions which formally are based on the structure of the standard predicative possession.
7. Having a headache (and other experiential feelings)
Having a headache is an experiential situation, an experience of pain. In the semantic role of Experiencer is an animate being (mainly human) whereas in the case investigated the Stimulus is frequently omitted (because obvious or insignificant or obscure), i.e. the Stimulus is something causing the head or a different body part to ache. Languages express experiential situations in different ways, and the same language may change the structure of the sentence to express a painful feeling (or a feeling in general) in the course of time, as happened in Russian.
8. Having a headache in the Slavic languages
Proto-Slavic *boVeti (Trubacev 1975: II, 187-189) or *boleti (Derksen 2008: 51) 'to ache'41 was a verb that required an acc Experiencer, an archaic syntactic feature of Indo-European origin (cf. Latin me pudet 'I feel ashamed'42). All the Slavic languages (except Modern Russian and, possibly, Belorussian) preserve this ancient construction, cf. Table 243:
38 Matthew (22:21) in Xramcova (2012: 26).
39 Both Italian mi and Albanian me are dat forms of 1sg personal pronouns, cf. Fedriani, Manzelli & Ramat (2013: 401).
40 For 'I'm cold' cf. Finnish minulla on kylma (Papp 1978: 562) or minun on kylma (Papp 1978: 322) and Estonian mul on ktilm (Saagpakk 1992: 389).
41 As for the etymology of Proto-Slavic *boleti see also Javorskaja (2009: 413-417). In Russian болеть / bolet' has two different paradigms, a full-fledged inflected form (3sg болеет / boleet) 'to be ill' (practically unknown to Belorussian and Ukrainian) - cf. Russian я болею грипом / ja boleju gripom 'I have the flu' - and an impersonal form (3sg болит / bolit) 'to ache, hurt', shared with all the Slavic languages, including Belorussian and Ukrainian.
42 See, e.g., Chiara Fedriani in Fedriani & Manzelli (2014: 73-78).
43 References omitted for the main Slavic languages. Jakuskina (2009: 135) mentions Czech, Slovak, Polish, Slovene, Serbo-Croatian, Macedonian and Bulgarian (главата ме боли / glavata me boli); Javorskaja (2009: 415) has the same examples.
Table 2
Bulgarian boli me glavâta / боли ме главата
Macedonian me boli glâvata / ме боли главата
BCS44 boll me glâva / боли ме глава
Slovene glâva me bolt — bolt me glâva
Czech hlava me bolt — bolt me hlava
Slovak boli ma hlava
Rusyn méne bolyt' holovâ45
Upper Sorbian mje hlowa boli46
Polish boli mnie glowa47
Kashubian the glova boli48
Alongside this old structure the West and South Slavic languages can use the have-strategy as in Standard Average European, cf., e.g., Czech mam bolesti hlavy 'I have a headache' (Serzant 2015: 341), and Slovene imam glavobôl 'I have a headache' (Pirnat-Greenberg 2012: 213). Ilya A. Serzant in Serzant & Bjarnadottir (2014: 229-233) has shown the evolution of the cases required by the verb for 'to ache' from Middle Russian (with an acc Ex-periencer) to Modern Russian (with an adess Experiencer). Krys'ko (2006: 118-119) offers the following examples from Middle Russian to Early Modern Russian: охъ охъ голова мя бо-лить / ox" ox" golova mja (acc) bolit' (15th c.) 'ouch! ow! my head hurts', много ми болить дша / mnogo bo mi (dat) bolit' d(ou)sa 'indeed my soul is aching very much', and аще у кого болить зоубъ / asce u kogo (adess-like PP) bolit' zoub" 'if someone has a toothache'. Miklosich (1868-1874: 383), among a lot of examples, gives "kleinrussisch" ("Little Russian", i.e. a variety of Ukrainian) hotovka mja (acc) bolyt. An acc-Experiencer is still admitted in Ukrainian, cf. мене болить голова / mené bolyt' holovâ (Javorskaja 2009: 415), or тебе болять зуби / tebé bol-jât' zûby (Zimovec 2009: 67) 'my teeth ache'49. Moreover, Belorussian, Ukrainian, and Baltic Russian admit the use of a dat-Experiencer, cf. Belorussian мне балиць галава / mné (dat) balte' halavâ (Koscanka et al. 2010: 81) 'I have a headache', Ukrainian мени болить голова / meni bolyt' holovâ (Zimovec 2009: 67)50 'I have a headache', cf. Ukrainian bolila meni (dat) holova 'I've got headaches' (Serzant & Bjarnadottir 2014: 231), and Baltic Russian mne (dat) galava balit 'I have a head-ache' (Cekmonas 2001: 121). Finally, for expressing a headache, Modern Russian admits only the predicative possession with the Experiencer in "adessive state", a construction which exists also in Belorussian and in Ukrainian as an alternative strategy (Table 3):
44 BCS = Bosnian-Croatian-(Montenegrin)-Serbian.
45 Transcarpathian Rusyn for 'I have a headache' (Magocsi 1979: 71).
46 Bjarnat Rewerk in Budanowa (1990: 67, s.v. bolec): Upper Sorbian is spoken in Upper Lusatia (Oberlausitz in German), which is part of Saxony (Germany).
47 Polish mnie could be a dat because mnie is simultaneously gen, dat (= mi), and acc (= mi§), but it is sufficient to take into account a 3sg.M personal pronoun to remove any doubt that the Experiencer is an acc: boli go glowa 'he has a headache'.
48 Kashubian (Cassubian) is a member of the Lechitic subgroup of West Slavic alongside Polish and Silesian. It is spoken in the present Pomeranian Voivodeship (capital Gdansk) in Poland. Kashubian data from Sychta (1967: I, 55, s.v. bolec; 326-327, s.v. glova).
49 As for Ukrainian Zimovec (2009: 67) mentions also моя голова болить / moja holova bolyt' which corresponds exactly to English my head aches.
50 According to Javorskaja (2009: 415, footnote 4) the use of dat in Ukrainian as an alternative construction to express having a headache could be due to a Germanic influence (Yiddish or German).
Table 3
Russian у меня болит голова / u menja bolit golova
Belorussian у мяне балиць галава / u mjane balic' halava Ukrainian у мене болить голова / u mene bolyt' holova 'I have a headache'
9. Having a headache in the Finnic languages
All the Finnic languages, except Livonian, use the predicative possession pattern (with possessor bearing the adess suffix) to express a headache or other physical pains (Table 4)51:
Table 4
Livonian (Kettunen 1938: 468, in simplified transcription)
mi'n ambod va'llobod 1sg.dat tooth-pl hurt-pl.prs
(German:) 'mir schmerzen die zahne' ('my teeth hurt')
Estonian
mul valutab pea (nom) mul on peavalu (nom)
Voro
mul kasi (nom) halt' 'my hand hurted'
Votian
milla vaivattaap paa (nom) mill vaivattaap paata (part)
Ingrian
miul pakottaa hampahia (pl-part) 'my teeth hurt'
miul kivistaa kurraa katta (part) 'my left hand hurts'
(Serzant 2015: 333) (Alvre 1993: 344)52
(Käsi & Neetar 2011:70)
(Adler et al. 2012: 1455) (Adler et al. 2012: 352)54
(Nirvi 1971: 371b)55 (Laanest 1997: 74)
53
51 Except in the case of Livonian the sentences have no interlinear glosses in order to save space and only the noun for 'head' or for another body part is followed by the case abbreviation in brackets. The meaning is 'I have a headache' except when differently translated.
52 Alternative expressions in Estonian are mu ('my') pää (= pea) valutab (Saagpakk 1992:1060, s.v. valutama) and pää on haige 'I have a headache' (Saagpakk 1992: 696, s.v. pää), litt.: 'head is ill' (without Experiencer).
53 Vöro or South Estonian (Vastseliina dialect) mul käsi halt' means 'at-me hand (käsi) hurted', with halt' = halut', imperfect of halutam(m)a = North Estonian valutama 'to hurt'. Inge Käsi collected the data, Helmi Neetar edited them.
54 nom of 'head' in western Votian of Itsäpäivä (Adler et al. 2012: 1455, s.v. vaivattaassa), cf. part in eastern Votian of Luuditsa mill vaivattaap päätä (Adler et al. 2012: 352, s.v. kaihota) and eastern Votian of Liivtsülä mil vaivatap päätä (Adler et al. 2012: 728, s.v. miä).
55 See pacottä in central Ingrian of Metsäkülä in the Soikkola peninsula (Russian Comkmho / Sojkino) in simplified script. I am grateful to Manuel Barbera (university of Turin) for his kind help on this point. The following example from Laanest (1997: 74, s.v. kivistaaG) is in the eastern Ingrian of Hevaha (Russian KoBamu / Kovasi or KoBam / Kovas).
Finnish
minulla sarkee paa (nom)
Karelian Proper miula piata (part) kivistay miula on pia (nom) kipie
Livvi Karelian
minul kivistay piady (part)
Ludic Karelian millai oq kibed vats (nom) 'my stomach hurts'
Vepsian
minai kibistab pan (acc)
(Serzant 2015: 333) (Karlova 2011: 102)
(Karlova 2011: 102)
(Filippova 2009: 51)56 (Kujola 1944: 128a, 239b)
57
(Brodskij 2008b: 97)
58
As highlighted, all of the Finnic languages except Livonian have the Experiencer in the adessive case, notwithstanding the fact that the formal differences could make someone suspect it is not always as glossed (for instance, Vepsian minai is an adessive form vs. minei which is the dative form of the first person singular of the personal pronoun). Actually, Finnish presents a lot of alternative expressions, not only with the Experiencer in the adessive case. Finnish is closer to English I have a headache when it employs paansarky 'headache', a nominal compound word with paa-n 'head-gen' + sarky 'pain', instead of using the verb sarkea 'to ache', 3sg sarkee 'it hurts'. The sore body part (the head) can bear a possessive suffix (-ni 1sg 'my'), possibly reinforced by the gen of the personal pronoun (minu-n 1sg-gen 'of me'), almost always in the partitive case (-tA), i.e. paa-ta 'head-part', and paa-ta-ni 'head-part-poss1.sg'. Moreover, there is a series of synonymous verbs for 'to ache, to hurt' (and also olla kipea 'to be sore'), cf. Finnish minulla sarkee paa (nom), minulla sarkee paata (Serzant 2015: 333), (colloquial:) mulla sarkee paa (nom), minulla on paansarkya (part), minulla sarkee paata (part), minun (1sg-gen) paata (part) sarkee, paatani (part-poss.1sg) sarkee, paatani (part-poss.1sg) kivistaa, paatani (part-poss.1sg) pakottaa, paatani (part-poss.1sg) porottaa, minun (1sg-gen) paatani (part-poss.1sg) sarkee, paatani (part-poss.1sg) on kipea59. As for the use of cases in Finnish Sulkala & Karjalainen (1992: 178) report an interesting couple of examples in the semantic area of pain: Finnish pojan (gen) kasi on kipea 'the boy's hand [kasi] is sore' vs. po-jalla (adess) on kasi kipea 'the boy has a sore hand' (poja-n is the genitive case and poja-lla the adessive case of poika 'boy'). In her study of case marking in Estonian and Lithuanian Birute Klaas took into account also German, Finnish and Russian as regards experiential clauses expressing cold, heat, merriness and well being. As for having a headache Klaas (1997: 58-59) added Estonian ema (gen) pea (nom) valutab 'mother's head is aching', thus implicitly introducing the concept of inalienable possession, but this kind of clause does not belong to the
56 Cf. (without Experiencer) Livvi keroi (nom) on kibei = Russian горло болит / gorlo bolit (Bojko & Markianova 2011: 32, s.v. болеть 2) 'throat hurts' (litt.: 'throat is sore (ADJ)' in Livvi) vs. pian (acc) kivistay = Russian голова болит / golova bolit (Bojko & Markianova 2011: 70, s.v. голова) 'head hurts'.
57 Ludic dialect of Nuomoil = Naamoila (here in simplified script) translated into Finnish vatsani on kipea ('my belly is sore') by Kujola but litterally the Ludic sentence means 'at-me is sore belly'.
58 Cf. minai pan kibistab translated into Russian у меня болит голова / u menja bolit golova, but litterally у меня голову болит / u menjagolovu bolit in Brodskij (2008a: 212).
59 My main source is the Finnish-Hungarian dictionary by Papp (1978: 271, s.v. kipea; 278, s.v. kivistaa; 520, s.v. pakottaa; 583, s.v. porottaa; 622, s.v. paa; 790, s.v. sarkea).
pattern here analyzed because ema pea 'mother's head' is a single noun phrase functioning as a subject.
10. Other experiential constructions and the like
Other experiential constructions expressing physical feelings such as 'to be cold' (cf. Finnish minulla on kylma 'I am cold'), or, more generally, predicative expressions of abstract possession, e.g. 'to be in a hurry' (cf. Finnish minulla on kiire 'I am in a hurry', translatable into Spanish tengo prisa or Catalan tinc pressa, litt.: 'I have haste') have been seen above (section 6. and footnotes 34 and 40). Finnic and East Slavic have more than one alternative to express feelings such as, e.g., hunger, thirst, cold, heat, and sleepiness. For reasons of space here only examples in Finnish and Russian are shown for just one feeling, 'to be hungry' (Table 5):
Table 5
Finnish
minulla on nalka 1sg-adess be.3sg hunger minun on nalka Isg-gen60 be.3sg hunger olen nalissani ole-n nal-i-ssa-ni be-1sg hunger-pl-iness-poss.1sg olen nalkainen be-1sg hungry
Russian
я голоден
ja golôden
1sg.nom hungry
я хочу есть
ja xocu est'
1sg.nom want-1sg to.eat
мне хочется есть
mne xocetsja est'
1sg.dat want-3sg-refl to.eat
Table 6 (hopefully, a complete picture) is a synthetic report of the use of cases expressing the Experiencer for five physical feelings (to be hungry etc.) in six Finnic languages and in the East Slavic languages.
It is clear that the East Slavic languages (and Livonian) do not utilize the adess-like PP for any of the five physical feelings, in contrast with Estonian (5 times out of 5), Finnish (4 out of 5), Karelian Proper (4 out of 5), and Livvi Karelian (3 out of 5). Vepsian is close to the sister Finnic languages but replaces the adessive case with the allative case in 3 expressions out of 5. For these feelings the extension of the adess Experiencer is totally in favour of the Finnic languages whereas the East Slavic languages exhibit a complete absence of adess-like PP constructions.
Finally, another example of abstract possession (for a reduced sample of languages), i.e. the expression of age, shows a peculiar situation (table 7).
60 But see section 6. as regards Finnish -n as a "datival genitive".
(Papp & Jakab 1985: 183) (Papp 1978: 475) (Papp 1978: 475)
(Papp & Jakab 1985: 183)
Table 6. Five feelings in Finnic and East Slavic languages
hungry thirsty cold hot sleepy
Livonian nom nom dat dat dat
Estonian ADESS ADESS ADESS ADESS ADESS
nom nom — — nom
Finnish ADESS ADESS ADESS ADESS part
gen gen gen gen —
nom nom nom — nom
Karelian ADESS ADESS ADESS ADESS part
nom part — — —
Livvi ADESS nom ADESS ADESS nom
nom part — — —
Vepsian nom nom — — part
allat — allat allat —
Russian nom nom — — nom
dat dat dat dat dat
Belorussian dat dat dat dat dat
nom — — — —
Ukrainian nom nom dat dat nom
Table 7
Finnish — olen kaksikymmentä vuotias61
be.1sg 20 year-ish
Livvi minul on kaksikymmen vuottu62
1sg-adess be.3sg 20 year-part
Vepsian minei om kaks'kümne vot63
1sg-dat be.3sg 20 year-part
Russian MHe — gBag^aTb ^eT
mne — dvadcat' let
1sg.dat 20 year.gen.pl
'I am twenty years old'
In this case the possessive construction exhibited by Livvi Karelian is surprising, while Finnish uses an adjectival predication and Vepsian shares a datival subject with Russian.
11. Conclusions
The topic scrutinized, having as its background the problem of the relationship between the Finnic languages and Russian, is by no means a simple issue. I examined the data in order to add one more piece (the expression of having a headache already studied by Ilya A. Serzant from another perspective) to the mosaic of possible correspondences among languages in con-
61 Cf. Alvre (1993: 87).
62 Filippova (2009: 20).
63 Cf. Brodskij (2008b: 33).
tact which belong to different language families. A thorough treatment of the subject would require an entire book or more than one volume. Many scholars who dealt with the theme of predicative possession in the aforementioned languages have reached a conclusion I could share, namely that every language has made a contribution to the growth of a "new" kind of expression. How it happened is difficult to discover. A Location Schema to express a possessor is a quite trivial possibility64, less trivial is the extension of the predicative possession at issue (with the possessor in "adessive state") to experiential constructions. I think that somewhere at some time a speaker began to treat having a headache as a kind of possession, mainly because one's head is an inalienable body part. Was that speaker's L1 Russian or a Finnic language? Or was he/she bilingual? Difficult, if not impossible, to ascertain. Bilingualism and even plurilingualism was and is largely widespread near the Baltic Sea (and the same holds true for the Volga-Kama Basin and the Pontic area). As for Russian we have documents (in Russianized Old Church Slavonic but also in "pure" Novgorodian Russian) dating back to the 11th century CE, while, leaving aside the short "Karelian" birch bark document from Novgorod (13th c.), a real documentation of a Finnic language, namely Finnish, begins with the Lutheran clergyman Mikael Agricola's ABCkiria (modern Finnish ABC-kirja), a primer printed in 1543. There is a gap of half a millenium between East Slavic and Finnic languages as regards their written documentation, and this is a real handicap for a serious comparison. As was remarked in section 6. Agricola's language in his New Testament (Se Wsi Testamenti, 1548) shows important differences in respect of the present-day language as the "datival genitive" studied by Inaba (2015). Some differences could especially affect experiential constructions, which are not well attested in that kind of religious literature. Thus, I think that the adessive possessor in Finnish was less widespread in the 16th century than nowadays (and what about in the first millenium CE?). Such a statement does not solve anything, but it is at least an honest approach to such problems. Research must go on examining more constructions before making a reasonable assessment about the whole question regarding the linguistic relationship between the Finnic and the East Slavic languages.
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Несмотря на то, что предикативные посессивные конструкции в целом довольно хорошо исследованы, в этой области еще остается немало вопросов, особенно при изучении того, как они соотносятся с экспериенциальными конструкциями. В настоящей статье на конкретном примере таких конструкций (выражение идеи головной боли в прибалтийско-финских и восточнославянских языках) проводится попытка разрешить «больной» вопрос о происхождении адессивно-посессивной конструкции в русском языке.
Ключевые слова: предикативные посессивные конструкции, экспериенциальные конструкции, прибалтийско-финские языки, восточнославянские языки, языковые контакты.
