Verbs of falling in Kazym Khanty

DOI:10.30842/alp2306573716113

Vaneyan S. S., Toldova S. Yu., Zheleznova (Naumova) V. A. Glagoly padeniya v kazymskom dialekte khantyyskogo yazyka. Acta Linguistica Petropolitana. 2020. XVI(1): 435–461.

The work is devoted to the verbs of falling in Kazym dialect of Khanty language (Ob-Ugric < Finno-Ugric). This dialect is spoken in the district near the Kazym River, Khanty-Mansi district. The work suggests the detailed distribution of the core verbs pertaining to the semantic field of falling. The system of verbs of falling in Kazym Khanty can be characterized as weakly dominant system, when there is one verb that has a wide meaning and can be used nearly in all the contexts. The main verb is pitti. It denotes situations belonging to the tree frames associated with falling. The verb is not used to denote the situation of destruction. The usage of the majority of other verbs described in the work is also limited to three frames. However, pitty have the widest usage. It’s meaning is free of additional connotations. It has a bulk of grammaticalized and idiomatized usages. There are also some other verbs that correspond to the same basic frames. However, the number of particular situations they denote within these frames is narrower as compared to pitti. Separate verbs (a verb and its suffixed correlates) are used in context of the fourth frame, namely destruction. As a result, the table is given where the distribution of the verbs of falling among different diagnostic contexts for falling subframes in Kazym Khanty is summarized.

Keywords

verbs of falling, lexical typology, the Khanty language

About the authors

Vaneyan S. S.

Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow

ss.van67@gmail.com

Toldova S. Yu.

National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow

toldova@yandex.ru

Zheleznova (Naumova) V. A.

National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow

vanaumova.hse@gmail.com

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Keywords

verbs of falling, lexical typology, the Khanty language