Marking strategies of attributive possession in Selkup

Budzisch, Josefina

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“…First of all, it has to be acknowledged that Selkup exhibits much dialectal variation at all levels of the language system. However, since Budzisch (2017) has shown that locative predication is realized similarly in all varieties of Selkup, they are discussed together here. Generally, theme and location are most often connected by a copula element, which is the copula verb ɛː-(with phonetic variants) in affirmative locative clauses (example (10a)).…”

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Hämeenmaalta Jamalille. Kirja Tapani Salmiselle

Qiu¹

2022

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Within the given paper, I investigate the patterns of the linguistic expression of locative predication (formalized as "X BE.AT Y") in the Samoyedic languages, taking into account the two major typological approaches of Stassen (1997) and Ameka & Levinson (2007). The following patterns are shown: The encoding of the theme (unmarked subject) and the location (spatial adverbial included in the predicate) does not differ across the Samoyedic languages, but the linking element: In affirmative locative clauses, most Samoyedic languages exhibit a copula verb, which appears in predicate nominals/adjectives as well. The major exception from this pattern is the Forest Enets locative copula verb ŋa-'to be at', which I discuss in more detail since its locative semantics appear to be a recent functionally motivated development. In negative locative clauses, in turn, negative existential verbs are used in all Samoyedic languages. Consequently, Samoyedic languages show a polarity split in the encoding of locative predication. Arguing that a locative interpretation of the successor forms of the Proto-Samoyedic copula verb is not felicitous from a synchronic point of view, I discuss the typological approaches of Stassen (1997) as well as Ameka & Levinson (2007). Finally, I present a first attempt at typological classification of locative predication, which is based on the analysis of the Samoyedic languages but might be validated by taking into account data from a much larger sample of languages.

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Section: Selkupmentioning

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Hämeenmaalta Jamalille. Kirja Tapani Salmiselle

Qiu¹

2022

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“…The use of this expression is illustrated in (9). (More about the cardinal points in Selkup see among others Polyakova 2006, 2017and Budzisch & Kahrs 2020.…”

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“I Go Downstream, and You Go Toward the Snowstorm”: Expressions of Cardinal Directions in Nganasan and Dolgan

Вагнер-Надь¹

2023

Tomsk Journal of Linguistics and Anthropology

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This corpus-based study is dedicated to the topic of spatial orientation in two genetically unrelated but geographically neighboring languages, Ngnasan and Dolgan. Nganasan belongs to the Northern-Samoyedic branch of the Uralic language family, while Dolgan is a Turkic language. The Dolgans reached the peninsula later than the Nganasan and inhabited rather the eastern part. The goal is to typologically examine the linguistic realization of the directions of the so-called compass orientation. This is a very well-known fact that many indigenous languages, including many languages spoken in Siberia, do not know compass orientation. According to Brown (1983), speakers of many indigenous languages use three or only two cardinal points, however, in many languages, the speakers do not necessarily use the names of the compass direction but apply other concepts for expressing spatial directions. Brown (1983) identifies several sources of lexemes expressing the cardinal points, such as celestial bodies, which is the most often used source. It also occurs in the Samoyedic languages, e.g. in Selkup, but as we will see, not in the closely related Nganasan. Atmospheric features such as wind, seasons, blizzards, or environment- specific features such as a mountain, forest, or tundra can be metaphorically extended, thereby acting as the conceptual source of cardinal directions. The study follows Brown's typologization and tries to classify the results into their typological categories. We will find similarities and differences between the two languages regarding the conceptual sources. Both languages rely on the so-called landmarks for orientation in the surrounding areas, such as tundra, forest, river, or mountain, but beyond that, Nganasan uses other, non-common categories as well. These reflect a connection to their way of life; thus, it can be interpreted as a culture-specific source, which in turn has its origin in the environment. In contrast, the Nganasans do not use rivers as orientation points at all, although they live partly on the same rivers. Also typical only for the Nganasan is the use of atmospheric features a conceptual source. It does not play a role in any way in the Dolgan.

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Existential, locative and possessive predication in Kamas

Däbritz,

Wagner-Nagy

2024

JUL

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This paper describes and analyses existential, locative and possessive predications in Kamas. Starting from a functional-semantic perspective, we show that the three types of predications share many features, but they also exhibit some important differences. Given that two layers of Kamas can be distinguished, we demonstrate that the reactivated Kamas of the last speaker, Klavdiya Plotnikova, exhibits some peculiarities which can be explained partly by Russian influence. The most important result of the study is that the boundaries between the three predication types are rather fluid in Kamas, whereas the distinction between affirmative and negative clauses is morphosyntactically unambiguously manifested. This polarity split, given that it is seldom recognised in the general literature, may provide important implications for linguistic typology and theory.

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Marking strategies of attributive possession in Selkup

Cited by 5 publications

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Hämeenmaalta Jamalille. Kirja Tapani Salmiselle

Hämeenmaalta Jamalille. Kirja Tapani Salmiselle

“I Go Downstream, and You Go Toward the Snowstorm”: Expressions of Cardinal Directions in Nganasan and Dolgan

Existential, locative and possessive predication in Kamas

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