Adnominal Possessive Constructions in Narym, Vasjugan and Middle-Ob Dialects of Selkup

Abstract

The paper presents an analysis of the structural types of the adnominal possessive constructions in three little-studied Southern dialects of Selkup: Narym, Vasjugan and Middle-Ob. Apart from the other two types of possessive constructions (predicative and external) the adnominal possessive construction corresponds to a noun phrase involving a possessor (dependent) and a possessed (head). The possessor can be expressed by a noun or a pronoun, thus two types of adnominal possessive constructions (PNP) can be distinguished: nominal PNP and pronominal PNP. There are some approaches to marking possession in each type of the PNP in Selkup, which boil down to morphological or syntactic encoding. The locus of explicitly expressed markers encoding the possessive relation can either be on the head, on the dependent, on both or on neither of them in Southern Selkup.

Marking strategies of attributive possession in Selkup

“…Apart from the genitive marking, the marking of the possessor with the adessive in Central Selkup has been described in detail (e.g. Kim 1985;Budzisch 2015;Kim-Maloney & Kovylin 2015;Vorobeva et al 2017). Bekker et al (1995a: 83) claim that it is the most widely used construction in the Tym (Central) and Ob (South) dialects of Selkup and is used in these dialects to mark all types of possession.…”

“…This paper aims at providing an overview of different marking strategies for attributive possession and quantifying their frequency, as well as examining whether the type of possession plays a role in choosing a strategy. Marking strategies for attributive possession in Selkup are well established and described (among others, Kuznecova et al 1980;Kim 1985;Bekker et al 1995a;Budzisch 2015;Kim-Maloney & Kovylin 2015;Vorobeva et al 2017), but in those descriptions the strategies are often presented as being equal, and only a few notes on usage are provided. The objective of this study is to present a corpus-based approach and expand the picture of attributive possession in Selkup.…”

Inflectional morphology of nouns in Eastern Khanty (Vakh, Vasyugan, Surgut, Salym)

“…Предикативная посессивность описывалась в ряде финно-угорских языков в рамках исследовательского проекта «Типология категории посессивности на материале языков обско-енисейского ареала» в Томском государственном педагогическом университете, а также в отдельных работах отечественных и зарубежных лингвистов [Kangasmaa-Minn 1984;Wagner-Nagy 2011: 213-250;Полякова, Воробьева 2016;Kowalik 2016;Budzisch 2015;2017;Vorobeva, Novitskaja et al 2017;Vorobeva, Novitskaja 2018a, 2018b. Однако данная работа ещё далека от завершения, поскольку пока охвачены не все языки и диа-лекты обско-енисейского ареала.…”