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This presentation examines the origin of the productive and multifunctional1 derivational suffix -?k of the Udmurt language, using the material of the Turku-Izhevsk Corpus. Two opposing views have been put forward as to the origin of this suffix: the first one posits that it is the result of the fusion of two different derivational suffixes (a reflexive and a frequentantive one), whereas the other one hypothesizes one single (frequentantive) derivational suffix from which it developed. When she posits two differen...