Ob-Ugric Institute of Applied Researches and Development, Khanty-Mansiysk, Russian Federation, [email protected]
Introduction: the article presents a study of the functioning of personal pronouns in folklore texts. The works of oral folklore most fully reflect the linguistic picture of the world of the people. In folklore texts, one can see the features of the use of lexical units, in particular personal pronouns, their semantics.
Objective: to identify typological features of the use of personal pronouns in the reflexive function in the Ob-Ugric languages.
Research materials: examples of the use of personal pronouns in the reflexive function, extracted from published folklore texts of the Khanty and Mansi peoples, and collected from informants.
Results and novelty of the research: for the first time, the category of reflexivity expressed by personal pronouns in the Khanty language is described using the material of the Kazym dialect, with the involvement of the material of the Surgut dialect of the Khanty and Mansi languages. The functional uniqueness of the pronoun is its non-referential use, in which pronouns are means of expressing various categories. For example, the expression of the category of reflexivity will be a non-referential use. Reflexivity is expressed by various linguistic means. One of the means is reflexive pronouns. The
semantics of the pronouns ‘self’, ‘himself’ in the Kazym dialect of the Khanty language is expressed by personal pronouns in the nominative, by indirect cases, a combination of a personal pronoun and a postposition, a combination of an accusative and a personal pronoun. The results of the study can be used in comparing related languages, for writing a scientific grammar of the Khanty language and in the practice of teaching native languages.
Key words: personal pronouns, reflexivity, functions, semantics, Khanty language, dialects, Mansi language
Acknowledgments: the author expresses gratitude to the anonymous reviewers, as well as to all informants – native speakers of the Khanty and Mansi languages.
For citation: Fedorkiw L. A. Functional features of the personal pronouns in Khanty folklore texts // Vestnik Ugrovedenia = Bulletin of Ugric Studies. 2024; 14 (4/59): 712–723