To the question of the functioning of complex sentences in the Udmurt language
N. V. Kondratyeva Udmurt State University, Izhevsk, Russian Federation, [email protected]
A. F. Utkina Udmurt Institute of History, Language and Literature, Udmurt Federal Research Center of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Izhevsk, Russian Federation, [email protected]
ABSTRACT
Introduction: the article is devoted to the study of the distributional features of complex sentences in the system of the modern Udmurt language. The article presents the classification of complex sentences and reveals the functional load of each type of subordinate clauses in a literary text.
Objective: to identify the functional load of complex sentences in the modern literary Udmurt language.
Research materials: literary texts by G. Medvedev, G. Perevoshchikov, and G. Krasilnikov.
Results and novelty of the research: based on the structural and semantic approach of classification of complex sentences, as well as analyzing the data of the National Corpus of the Udmurt language, 11 types of subordinate clauses are identified: attributive; explanatory; conditional; concessive; subordinate clauses of time; subordinate clauses of place; clauses of reason and result; clauses of purpose; clauses of manner; clause of degree; clause of measure and quantity. As shown by a quantitative analysis of examples, conditional and explanatory subordinate clauses have the highest frequency in
a literary text. Clauses of manner, degree and clauses of reason and result have the least frequency. The scientific novelty of the work is due to the fact that this is the first experience of identifying the frequency of complex subordinate clause use in fiction, which will allow further comparative analysis of complex sentence use in various types of texts.
Key words: the Udmurt language, syntax of the Udmurt language, compound sentence, complex sentence, structural and semantic approach.
Acknowledgments: the work was supported by RFBR grant № 21-512-23007⁄21 РЯИК_а.
For citation: Kondratyeva N. V., Utkina A. F. To the question of the functioning of complex sentences in the Udmurt language // Vestnik ugrovedenia = Bulletin of Ugric Studies. 2021; 11 (4): 650–658.
