The abessive in the Permian languages: similarity and difference in semantic structure
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Institute of Language, Literature and History, Komi Scientific Center of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Syktyvkar, Russian Federation, [email protected]
ABSTRACT
Introduction: nominal and verbal caritive indicators presented in the modern Permian languages date back to the Finno-Permian period. In order to clarify the space of variability and typological possibilities of caritive units, the description of their morphosyntactic and semantic features becomes particularly relevant.
Objective: to identify common and specific features of the semantic structure of the abessive in the Permian languages.
Research materials: the original texts in the Komi-Zyryan, Komi-Permian and Udmurt languages from printed sources and electronic corpora.
Results and novelty of the research: interlanguage comparison of the semantics of the abessive has shown that its semantic structure has minor discrepancies in related languages. It is revealed that in the Permian languages, the abessive, in addition to the caritive meaning, can also express time values, measures of completeness, cause and addition of a participant of a situation. It is established that when expressing temporal meaning in constructions with negative verbs in the Udmurt language, the final boundary of the temporal reference point is actualized; in the Komi language the entire
period of time completely coinciding with the implementation of the action actualizes; when expressing the value of the measure of completeness in the Komi language, the abessive indicates the absence of the minimum possible unit of the object’s composition, completeness is updated; in the Udmurt language – the unit of the object’s composition missing to the full measure, incompleteness is updated. New data are being introduced into scientific circulation, which can be used in comparative historical and typological studies of caritive indicators.
Key words: Finno-Ugric languages, Permian languages, morphology, noun, adjective, case category, caritive indicators, abessive, semantics.
Acknowledgments: the publication was prepared as part of the implementation of the state task of the Federal Research Center of the Komi Scientific Center of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the state registration number of the project is FUUU-2021-0008 «Permian languages in the linguocultural space of the European North and the Urals».
For citation: Nekrasova G. A. The abessive in the Permian languages: similarity and difference in semantic structure // Vestnik ugrovedenia = Bulletin of Ugric Studies. 2022; 12 (2): 264–271.
ABSTRACT
Introduction: nominal and verbal caritive indicators presented in the modern Permian languages date back to the Finno-Permian period. In order to clarify the space of variability and typological possibilities of caritive units, the description of their morphosyntactic and semantic features becomes particularly relevant.
Objective: to identify common and specific features of the semantic structure of the abessive in the Permian languages.
Research materials: the original texts in the Komi-Zyryan, Komi-Permian and Udmurt languages from printed sources and electronic corpora.
Results and novelty of the research: interlanguage comparison of the semantics of the abessive has shown that its semantic structure has minor discrepancies in related languages. It is revealed that in the Permian languages, the abessive, in addition to the caritive meaning, can also express time values, measures of completeness, cause and addition of a participant of a situation. It is established that when expressing temporal meaning in constructions with negative verbs in the Udmurt language, the final boundary of the temporal reference point is actualized; in the Komi language the entire
period of time completely coinciding with the implementation of the action actualizes; when expressing the value of the measure of completeness in the Komi language, the abessive indicates the absence of the minimum possible unit of the object’s composition, completeness is updated; in the Udmurt language – the unit of the object’s composition missing to the full measure, incompleteness is updated. New data are being introduced into scientific circulation, which can be used in comparative historical and typological studies of caritive indicators.
Key words: Finno-Ugric languages, Permian languages, morphology, noun, adjective, case category, caritive indicators, abessive, semantics.
Acknowledgments: the publication was prepared as part of the implementation of the state task of the Federal Research Center of the Komi Scientific Center of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the state registration number of the project is FUUU-2021-0008 «Permian languages in the linguocultural space of the European North and the Urals».
For citation: Nekrasova G. A. The abessive in the Permian languages: similarity and difference in semantic structure // Vestnik ugrovedenia = Bulletin of Ugric Studies. 2022; 12 (2): 264–271.
