ИСТИНА

Juxtaposition as a machinery of building noun phrases is well-known to be widespread in Uralic languages: the modifier is left-adjoined to the head and does not bear any morphological marker of syntactic dependency. This strategy is used to attach both adjectives, cardinals, nominal modifiers (like Beser. ǯ́aǯ́eg siĺ ‘goose meat’), and groups with measure nouns (like Beser. odig kə̑də̑ gibi, ‘one basket of mushrooms’, lit. one basket mushroom). However, there remains a question whether all these groups share the same syntactic structure. We consider constructions pseudopartitive constructions with measure nouns in comparison with groups with nominal modifiers and NPs with adjectives, showing that they do not share the same syntactic structure. The syntactic properties we analyze include constituent properties, branching, pronominalization, particular properties of head ellipsis, information structure effects.