Means of expression of an alternative in the Khanty language
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Ob-Ugric Institute of Applied Researches and Development, Khanty-Mansiysk, Russian Federation,
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Introduction: the article is devoted to the identification of means of expression of an alternative in the Khanty language. An alternative is one of the varieties of multiplicative type of multiplicity of situations. The analysis of the semantic zone of alternativeness revealed lexical and morphological means through which this meaning is expressed.
Objective: to identify means of expression of an alternative in the Khanty language and to identify the most expressive one.
Research materials: the bilingual (Khanty-Russian) dictionaries of the Kazym, the Shuryshkar and the Eastern Khanty dialects, as well as examples from theoretical research on the Khanty language.
Results and novelty of the research: the scientific novelty of the research is that for the first time a comprehensive study of the semantic zone of an alternative in the Khanty language was conducted. The analysis reveals lexical and morphological means by which this meaning is realized. The alternative subsystem contains three groups: lexical means with semantics of an alternative; word-forming means expressing the meaning of an alternative; paired adverbs expressing mutually directed action. In the components of the fi group the meaning of an alternative is the least expressed and diffi determined; the second group contains verbs formed by the word-
Objective: to identify means of expression of an alternative in the Khanty language and to identify the most expressive one.
Research materials: the bilingual (Khanty-Russian) dictionaries of the Kazym, the Shuryshkar and the Eastern Khanty dialects, as well as examples from theoretical research on the Khanty language.
Results and novelty of the research: the scientific novelty of the research is that for the first time a comprehensive study of the semantic zone of an alternative in the Khanty language was conducted. The analysis reveals lexical and morphological means by which this meaning is realized. The alternative subsystem contains three groups: lexical means with semantics of an alternative; word-forming means expressing the meaning of an alternative; paired adverbs expressing mutually directed action. In the components of the fi group the meaning of an alternative is the least expressed and diffi determined; the second group contains verbs formed by the word-
forming suffi =i=/=ij= ~ = ĭ=/=ĭj= (they express the multiplicative type of multiplicity of situations including an alternative); the most clearly the meaning of an alternative is presented in the group with paired adverbs.
Key words: Khanty language, Kazym dialect, Shuryshkar dialect, Eastern dialects, an alternative, lexeme, suffix, paired adverbs.
Acknowledgements: the author expresses gratitude to the informants, as well as to the anonymous reviewer.
For citation: Moldanova I. M. Means of expression of an alternative in the Khanty languagee // Vestnik ugrovedenia = Bulletin of Ugric Studies. 2020; 10 (3): 499–506.
