«Материалы для изучения языка васюганских инородцев (остяков) Нарымского края» за 1889 г. св. Макария (Невского): особенности падежной морфологии
“Materials for studying the language of the Vasyugan aborigines (Ostyaks) of the Narym region” (1889) by St. Macarius (Nevsky): Case morphology peculiarities

Summary/Abstract: This study presents a discussion of peculiarities of the Eastern Khanty manuscript in the Vasyugan dialect “Materials for studying the language of the Vasyugan aborigines (Ostyaks) of the Narym region” and related materials found in the essays of the manuscript for 1889. The data were recorded by St. Macarius (Nevsky) during his winter trips along the Vasyugan River to some settlement located 444 miles from Narym. The objective of the study is to describe and analyze the case morphology of the idiom of the manuscript comparing it with more modern data on the Vasyugan and Vakh dialects to identify peculiarities. The description of the case system of the noun (which also included spatial orientation cases of serial postpositions) and personal pronouns was carried out separately due to the different set of their paradigms. Cases were analyzed from the point of view of their syntactic and semantic (semantic roles) representation in a sentence. All examples are presented both in the original graphics without changes and in a normalized version with morphemic parsing of lexemes and reliance on parallels presented in grammars and dictionaries published on the Eastern dialects of the Khanty language. The peculiarities of the case system of the monument include: 1) the absence of constructions where the real agent is expressed by a name in the locative case and which are quite frequent in the Vasyugan and Vakh dialects of the Khanty language; 2) the use of the vocative case which is quite rare in Eastern dialects.

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