Ob-Ugric Institute of Applied Researches and Development, Khanty-Mansiysk, Russian Federation, [email protected]
ABSTRACT
Introduction: the article is devoted to the identification of linguistic units characterizing a positive aesthetic evaluation in the Western dialects of the Khanty language.
Objective: to identify the features of the lexical representation of aesthetic evaluation in the Khanty language based on the material of Western dialects.
Research materials: the empirical basis of the study was a card file made up of examples of bilingual dictionaries on the Khanty language, folklore collections and samples of spoken language collected from informants.
Results and novelty of the research: the article provides a comprehensive description of adjectives at the lexical, semantic, and structural levels of the language based on their evaluation function, and defines their role in the implementation of the evaluation category in the Khanty language based on the material of Western dialects. Aesthetic evaluation in the Khanty language is characterized by adjectives: Kazym Khanty, Shuryshkary Khanty, Ural Khanty ӑња ‘beautiful’; Kazym Khanty вантǝсəӈ ‘prominent, handsome’; Shuryshkary Khanty вантәпсайєӈ ‘handsome’; Kazym Khanty вєншпи ‘beautiful, lovely’;
Kazym Khanty вэщәӈ ‘worthy; pleasant, cute’; Shuryshkary Khanty вещәӈ ‘beautiful’; Kazym Khanty хурамǝӈ ‘beautiful, elegant (about the thing)’; Shuryshkary Khanty, Ural Khanty хорамәӈ ‘beautiful’; Kazym Khanty хурасәӈ ‘handsome (about a man), prominent’; Shuryshkary Khanty хорасәӈ ‘handsome, cute; figurative expressive’; Ural Khanty хорам ‘beautiful’, хорамәӈ ‘beautiful’, хорасәӈ ‘prominent, beautiful’; Kazym Khanty, Shuryshkary Khanty, Ural Khanty йăм ‘beautiful’. The scientific novelty of the study lies in the fact that for the first time in the Khanty language adjectives characterizing
aesthetic evaluation in a structural and semantic context are considered.
Key words: Khanty language, Western dialects, aesthetic evaluation, adjective, semantics
For citation: Shiyanova A. A. Aesthetic evaluation in adjectives of the Khanty language: structural and semantic aspect // Vestnik Ugrovedenia = Bulletin of Ugric studies. 2024; 14 (3/58): 520–527.