The formant -p’ai (-pi’ai) in postpositional cases (on the example of Livvi and Ludian dialects)

Introduction. In contemporary grammars of the newly standardized Karelian language, it is customary to distinguish two postpositional variants of the elative and ablative markers: -späi/-spiäi and -lpäi/-lpiäi. Another case, the additive, formed by the fusion of the illative ending with the formant -päi (-piäi), has not yet been incorporated into the grammatical framework of the Karelian language. The aim of this study is to refine the grammatical rules of the newly standardized variants of the Livvi and Ludian dialects of Karelian.