1 ‘Insufficient strength to defend its case’: Case attraction and related phenomena Wrocław, 18–19 September 2015 Maria Kholodilova (Saint Petersburg), Maria Privizentseva (Moscow) hol_m@mail.ru, taimary@mail.ru INVERSE ATTRACTION IN FINNO-UGRIC LANGUAGES 1 1. Introduction 1.1. Inverse attraction  Inverse attraction (IA): the head of the relative clause is marked for the case assigned to the corresponding participant in the subordinate clause. (1) Besermyan Udmurt, NOM  GEN2 pə̑nə̑-lə̑š’ kud-iz-lə̑ š’ mon kə̑ška-š’ko kə̑ l’l’-e š’ə̑res və̑l-ə̑n dog-GEN2 which-POSS.3SG-GEN2 I fear-PRS lie-PRS.3SG road on-IN ‘The dog I fear is lying on the road’.  Non-Finno-Ugric attestations:  Many dead Indo-European languages: ▫ Ancient Greek (Grimm 2005: 78–92); ▫ Hittite, Old Persian, Oscan and Umbrian (Hahn 1964); ▫ Latin (Touratier 1980: 147–211); ▫ Vedic and Sanskrit (Gonda 1975: 195); ▫ Middle High German (Pittner 1995); ▫ Modern Church Slavonic (Smotrickij 1619: 238); ▫ Old English (Harbert 1983).  Some modern Indo-European languages: ▫ Albanian of Xranje (Bevingston 1979), as cited in (Cinque 2015); ▫ Dari (Houston 1974), as cited in (Cinque 2015); ▫ Modern Persian (Aghaei 2006: 72–76, 90–95); ▫ East Franconian German (Fleischer 2006: 229); ▫ Non-standard Icelandic (Wood et al. 2015); ▫ Non-standard Russian.  Other: ▫ Old Georgian (Harris & Campbell 1995).  previous research on Finno-Ugric languages:  Besermyan Udmurt ▫ (Aralova 2003): the construction in question is noted in passing; ▫ (Belyaev 2012): the construction is mentioned, but is analyzed differently;  Ingrian Finnish (Kholodilova 2013);  Moksha Mordvin (Privizentseva, in print). 1.2. Finno-Ugric languages and our sample  Finno-Ugric languages constitute a subfamily within the Uralic family;  The internal classification of Finno-Ugric languages is subject to much debate; see an overview in Salminen (2002);  The classification in Table 1 is borrowed from WALS (Dryer, Haspelmath 2013). These language groups are generally recognized;  Our data so far: 10 languages (14 language varieties) belonging to 5 genera within the Finno- Ugric family: 1 We would like to thank our colleagues for their immense help in collecting the data. We gratefully acknowledge help from Aigul Zakirova (Meadow Mari), Ruslan Idrisov (Standard Udmurt), Nadezhda Kabaeva (Standard Moksha), Egor Kashkin (Komi, Shoksha Erzya), Natalia Kuznetsova (Finnish, Estonian), Mehmed Muslimov (Izhor), Polina Pleshak (Komi), Ksenia Shagal (Standard Erzya), and Olga Urasinova (Standard Udmurt).