The first books as evidence of paradigmatic stress variation in the Mari language in the XIX century
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Institute of linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation, Ivannikov Institute for System Programming of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation, [email protected]
ABSTRACT
Introduction: in previous studies, we demonstrated the existence of variable stress placement in numerous Uralic languages. We proposed a hypothesis that the Mari language retains this feature in its verb conjugations. Specifically, when the stress in the proto-language fell on the stem, Mari verbs exhibited the I a-conjugation, whereas when it fell on the ending, they displayed the II e-conjugation. While this hypothesis had no exceptions, it was only confirmed by a limited set of 12 verbs.
Objective: to identify regular differences in the place of stress in the verbal paradigm depending on the type of conjugation in the Hill Mari grammar and the manuscript of the translation of the Gospel of Matthew into the Northwestern dialect of the early XIX century from the modern Hill and Meadow Mari.
Research materials: A. Albinsky’s grammar of Hill Mari and the manuscript translation of the Gospel of Matthew into the Vyatka Northwestern dialect of the Mari language.
Results and novelty of the research: these texts revealed over 250 verb lexemes exhibiting variable stress in the present and past tense, participles, and gerunds. Notably, all observed variations were found to correlate with conjugation type: in the II e-conjugation, stress appeared on the affix in the third person singular and plural of the present and past indefinite tense, while in the I a-conjugation, stress was either on the stem or had duplicate variants. This provides compelling evidence linking conjugation type and stress placement, a pattern shared with Moksha, Komi-Permyak, Mansi, Khanty, Nenets, and Selkup languages, and can be traced back to the Proto-Uralic level.
Key words: Mari dialects, archival materials, grapho-phonetic features, stress placement
Acknowledgments: the work was supported by the Russian Science Foundation grant No. 20-18-00403.
For citation: Normanskaya Yu. V. The first books as evidence of paradigmatic stress variation in the Mari language in the XIX century // Vestnik ugrovedenia = Bulletin of Ugric Studies. 2023; 13 (3/54): 461–475.
ABSTRACT
Introduction: in previous studies, we demonstrated the existence of variable stress placement in numerous Uralic languages. We proposed a hypothesis that the Mari language retains this feature in its verb conjugations. Specifically, when the stress in the proto-language fell on the stem, Mari verbs exhibited the I a-conjugation, whereas when it fell on the ending, they displayed the II e-conjugation. While this hypothesis had no exceptions, it was only confirmed by a limited set of 12 verbs.
Objective: to identify regular differences in the place of stress in the verbal paradigm depending on the type of conjugation in the Hill Mari grammar and the manuscript of the translation of the Gospel of Matthew into the Northwestern dialect of the early XIX century from the modern Hill and Meadow Mari.
Research materials: A. Albinsky’s grammar of Hill Mari and the manuscript translation of the Gospel of Matthew into the Vyatka Northwestern dialect of the Mari language.
Results and novelty of the research: these texts revealed over 250 verb lexemes exhibiting variable stress in the present and past tense, participles, and gerunds. Notably, all observed variations were found to correlate with conjugation type: in the II e-conjugation, stress appeared on the affix in the third person singular and plural of the present and past indefinite tense, while in the I a-conjugation, stress was either on the stem or had duplicate variants. This provides compelling evidence linking conjugation type and stress placement, a pattern shared with Moksha, Komi-Permyak, Mansi, Khanty, Nenets, and Selkup languages, and can be traced back to the Proto-Uralic level.
Key words: Mari dialects, archival materials, grapho-phonetic features, stress placement
Acknowledgments: the work was supported by the Russian Science Foundation grant No. 20-18-00403.
For citation: Normanskaya Yu. V. The first books as evidence of paradigmatic stress variation in the Mari language in the XIX century // Vestnik ugrovedenia = Bulletin of Ugric Studies. 2023; 13 (3/54): 461–475.
