Doctor of philological sciences, associate professor, Head of Finno-Ugrian studies department of the University named after L. Etvesh Budapest, Hungary [email protected]
Abstract:The article deals with the marking the agent of infi nite verb forms in the Surgut-Khanty. Participles and negative nonfi nites appear in nonfi nite attributive and adverbial clauses, among others. As they can bear subject agreement suffi xes, their agent is not necessarily coreferential with the subject of the fi nite clause. These agreement suffi xes appear regardless of the grammatical category of the adverbial clause subject. The article follows the functional linguistic approach, and it is based on the analysis of published texts and on work with native speaker informants.
Keywords: agent-marking, non-fi nite, Surgut dialect, Khanty language.