POSTPOSITIONS IN UDMURT AND FINNISH LANGUAGES
Linguists studying the Udmurt language traditionally divide the postpositions in Udmurt into two main groups according to declination. The postpositions of the first group can be declined in cases as nouns and so form series of postpositions. Respectively, the postpositions of the second group don’t form series, i.e. they are undeclinable. According to the Finnish linguistics, the postpositions that are typologically counted in the group of the declinable’s, can get the endings of local cases. Other Finnish postpositions do not alter.On the basis of my study on the typological features of different Finno-Ugric languages and some specific features of Udmurt language, I came to the following conclusion. In Udmurt, the postposition forms making up this kind of a series of postpositions, should not be counted as separate, multiple words, but as grammatical forms of a single lexeme. These postpositions are declineable and get case and possessive endings as well as other affixes too.