Complex verbs and scalar modification (on the material of Tatyshly subdialect of the Udmurt language
Vinogradov Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russian Federation, [email protected]
ABSTRACT
Introduction: the article deals with the semantic properties of complex verbs (constructions combining a converb of a lexical verb and a grammaticalized verb) in the Tatyshly subdialect of the peripheral Southern dialect of the Southern variety of the Udmurt language.
Objective: to describe the semantics of constructions with various grammaticalized verbs in Tatyshly Udmurt subdialect, analysis of their common semantic properties.
Research materials: the data obtained by the method of questioning native speakers of the Tatyshly subdialect and from the corpus of oral texts recorded from them.
Results and novelty of the research: for the first time, the article describes in detail the meanings of complex verbs in the Tatyshly Udmurt subdialect, which has undergone intensive contacts with the Turkic languages and, in general, differs significantly from the literary language and from many other territorial variants of the Udmurt language. Generalizations about the functioning of grammaticalized verbs in complex verbs of the Udmurt language as scalar modifiers, which were not made in the works of their predecessors, were obtained. Such modifiers represent a semantic feature relevant to a particular
type of situation (frequency, duration of the situation, completeness of the coverage of an object, etc.) as having a value that is located on the appropriate scale above or, in the case of some verbs, below the contextual standard.
Key words: Udmurt language, Tatyshly subdialect, complex verbs, semantics, grammaticalization, scalarity
Acknowledgments: the research has been supported by the Russian Science Foundation (project № 22-18-00285, Lomonosov Moscow State University).
For citation: Kashkin E. V. Complex verbs and scalar modification (on the material of Tatyshly subdialect of the Udmurt language) // Vestnik ugrovedenia = Bulletin of Ugric Studies. 2024; 14 (4/59): 657–669.
