Verbs of pain in the Ob-Ugric languages: semantics and mechanisms of semantic derivation
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Ob-Ugric Institute of Applied Researches and Development, Khanty-Mansiysk, Russian Federation, [email protected]
ABSTRACT
Introduction: the article deals with the semantics of verbs describing situations of pain in the Khanty and Mansi languages from the perspective of lexical typology (secondary semantics for verbs of physical action, destruction, burning, sound and others) and attempt analysis of such metaphorical shifts and peculiarities in the semantics of these predicates.
Objective: to identify and describe the mechanisms of transfer of verbs of different lexico-semantic groups in the pain zone: to consider what modifications occur, on the one hand, in the semantics of the verb, and, on the other hand, in its structure and actional properties.
Research materials: different texts of the Kazym, Shuryshkar dialects of the Khanty language and Mansi language collected by the author from informants and partly extracted from the bilingual dictionaries of the Khanty and Mansi languages.
Results and novelty of the research: the pain zone turned out to be quite extensive; at this stage we studied in detail 19 Khanty and 22 Mansi verbs, around which we concentrated our analysis. For the Ob-Ugric languages, there has not yet been an attempt to classify the types of pain based on the compatibility of verbs from other lexico-semantic groups with parts of the body in terms of lexical typology. For the first time on the material of Ob-Ugric languages the ways of transformation of the considered predicates in the course of transfer to the semantic field of pain are presented. In this work, on the material of Ob-Ugric languages, we have considered the process of transition of verbs into the semantic field of pain from other fields. With this transition in borrowed verbs the model of sentences, actionality, morphology and semantics are changed. All initial process interpretations are erased and replaced by new static ones.
Key words: lexical typology, Khanty language, Mansi language, verbs of pain, semantics, semantic shift.
Acknowledgements: the author thanks the informants for the materials provided.
For citation: Nakhracheva G. L. Verbs of pain in the Ob-Ugric languages: lexical typology and mechanisms of semantic derivat // Vestnik ugrovedenia = Bulletin of Ugric Studies. 2019; 9 (4): 681–691.
ABSTRACT
Introduction: the article deals with the semantics of verbs describing situations of pain in the Khanty and Mansi languages from the perspective of lexical typology (secondary semantics for verbs of physical action, destruction, burning, sound and others) and attempt analysis of such metaphorical shifts and peculiarities in the semantics of these predicates.
Objective: to identify and describe the mechanisms of transfer of verbs of different lexico-semantic groups in the pain zone: to consider what modifications occur, on the one hand, in the semantics of the verb, and, on the other hand, in its structure and actional properties.
Research materials: different texts of the Kazym, Shuryshkar dialects of the Khanty language and Mansi language collected by the author from informants and partly extracted from the bilingual dictionaries of the Khanty and Mansi languages.
Results and novelty of the research: the pain zone turned out to be quite extensive; at this stage we studied in detail 19 Khanty and 22 Mansi verbs, around which we concentrated our analysis. For the Ob-Ugric languages, there has not yet been an attempt to classify the types of pain based on the compatibility of verbs from other lexico-semantic groups with parts of the body in terms of lexical typology. For the first time on the material of Ob-Ugric languages the ways of transformation of the considered predicates in the course of transfer to the semantic field of pain are presented. In this work, on the material of Ob-Ugric languages, we have considered the process of transition of verbs into the semantic field of pain from other fields. With this transition in borrowed verbs the model of sentences, actionality, morphology and semantics are changed. All initial process interpretations are erased and replaced by new static ones.
Key words: lexical typology, Khanty language, Mansi language, verbs of pain, semantics, semantic shift.
Acknowledgements: the author thanks the informants for the materials provided.
For citation: Nakhracheva G. L. Verbs of pain in the Ob-Ugric languages: lexical typology and mechanisms of semantic derivat // Vestnik ugrovedenia = Bulletin of Ugric Studies. 2019; 9 (4): 681–691.
