Аннотация:The paper is focused on the syntactic properties of genitive modifiers in Beserman Udmurt. Apart from the canonical genitive construction with obligatory possessive marking, genitive preposed to the head and head-adjacent (not separated by higher constituents), Beserman allows the structures where the genitive is non-adjacent to the possessum, the possessive suffix is absent and the possessed nominal may be replaced by an anaphoric pronoun or a question word.Following Edygarova (2010) and Usacheva, Arkhangelskiy (2016), I propose to analyze these constructions in terms of external possession. The genitive in such constructions often has a meaning of a personal locative in terms of Daniel (2003).Thus, I claim that there are two different syntactic positions for the genitive. One of them is a position inside the NP, and another one is external to the NP. Both positions can be occasionally filled simultaneously in spontaneous speech.
