Семантическая оппозиция керка/корка — горт/гурт в пермских языках
The semantic opposition between керка/корка — горт/гурт in Permic languages

Summary/Abstract: Many languages (including Komi) make a clear opposition between the ­following two concepts 1. ’house as a structure, building, construction’ and 2. ’house as a home, the home of a man’, which is lexically manifested in the existence of separate words with different roots to express those concepts. In the Komi language the pair is kerka — gort. The phenomenon is also typical of the closely related Udmurt language as well as of several Finno-Ugric, Samoyedic and some other languages. The present article analyses the semantics of Komi kerka, Udmurt korka and Komi gort, Udmurt gurt compared with the situation in other Uralic languages and beyond.

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