Inessive object and ablative adjunct with Erzya verbs of ingestion

Syntactic dilemma in causative structures Verbs of ingestion (‘to eat’, ‘to drink’....) Simultaneous direct objects ● Genitive-inessive alternation in marking of the direct-object causee ● Partitive function of the base-verb adjunct Encountered while working as a visiting project researcher at the University of Turku, namely, the ablative object associated with verbs of ingestion in the Mordvin languages – ‘to eat’, ‘to drink’, ‘to smoke’, ‘to breathe’