N.V. Patroeva Petrozavodsk State University, Petrozavodsk, Russian Federation, [email protected] T.V. Pashkova Petrozavodsk State University, Petrozavodsk, Russian Federation, [email protected] ABSTRACT Introduction: the presented article is a comprehensive study of parenthetical words in the Livvik dialect of the newly written Karelian language. Within the framework of the study, the authors turn to the consideration of semantics, etymology and functioning of modal words in the newly written Livvik dialect of the Karelian language. Objective: to study the semantic groups and etymology of the subjective modal components of a sentence functioning in the Livvik dialect of the Karelian language. Research materials: textbooks and dictionaries of the Livvik dialect of the newly written Karelian language. Results and novelty of the research: the article proposes a functional and semantic classification and etymological analysis of Karelian parenthetical modal words. In the Livvik dialect of the Karelian language about 40 parenthetical elements collected in newly written Karelian dictionaries are recorded. The data obtained in the process of studying dictionary materials on the Livvik dialect make it possible to distinguish 5 categories of parenthetical words by their meaning, of which the richest in composition of lexemes is the class intended to express varying degrees of reliability of a statement; other semantic subgroups (expressing a link to the source of a message, a call to an interlocutor, logical connections in a text, the emotional state of a speaker) demonstrate a much more modest segment of the field of subjective-modal collocations in the Livvik dialect of the Karelian language in terms of the number of units recorded in the dictionaries. The etymological analysis of parenthetical modal words showed that parentheses expressing the speaker’s assessment of his statement are in the process of their formation, replenishment with new lexemes; the formation of parenthetical modal phraseology is largely accomplished through syntactic derivation as the transition of notional words (names and verbs) into the class of parenthetical modal ones. The scientific novelty of the study lies in the fact that a semantic classification of parenthetical constructions of the Livvik dialect is proposed based on data from newly written dictionary sources, as well as observations in the field of etymology of parenthetical modal words. Key words: Karelian language, Livvik dialect, parenthetical words, morphology, syntax, discourse words Acknowledgments: the study was supported by the Russian Science Foundation grant № 23-28-000992, https://rscf.ru/ project/23-28-000992/. For citation: Patroeva N.V., Pashkova T.V. Parenthetical words in the Livvik dialect of the Karelian language: semantics, etymology, and functioning // Vestnik ugrovedenia = Bulletin of Ugric Studies. 2024; 14 (1/56): 69–77.