of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation, d.belova@iling-ran.ru
ABSTRACT
Introduction: the article deals with syntactic and prosodic features of an analytical construction “Russian infinitive + karЦnЦ ‘to do’» in the Tatyshly subdialect of the peripheral Southern dialect of the Southern variety of the Udmurt language.
Objective: to assess the degree of autonomy of Russian infinitives in analytical constructions and of the Tatyshly subdialect of the Udmurt language, field materials of the author.
Research materials: the corpus texts of Tatyshly subdialect of the Udmurt language, field materials of the author.
Results and novelty of the research: for the first time, the article discusses the syntactic and prosodic properties of the construction of loan adaptation in the Udmurt language based on new empirical material. Four diagnostic parameters are considered: accentual independence, autonomy, separability, and translocability. It is shown that the infinitives of the Russian language have accentual, but not syntactic, autonomy. The position within the complex in a neutral context can be occupied by particles and negative and optative auxiliary
verbs. The position of the clitics (necessarily inside the complex, outside, or variable) depends on the properties of these clitics. At the same time, infinitives, apart from the light verb, can have a contrastive communicative status, which increases their independence, in
particular, separability and autonomy.
Key words: verbal borrowings, light verb, syntactic connectivity, linear-syntagmatic continuum, Udmurt languague
Acknowledgments: this research is supported by Russian Science Foundation, RSF project № 26-18-01055 “Preverbs and serial verb constructions in the Uralic languages”.
For citation: Belova D. D. Structural autonomy of Russian verbal borrowings in Tatyshly subdialect of the Udmurt language // Vestnik ugrovedenia = Bulletin of Ugric Studies. 2026; 16 (2/65): 207–217. DOI: 10.30624/2220-4156-2026-16-207-217