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GRAMMATICALIZATION PATH OF THE LINGUAL UNIT MI̮ IN THE SELKUP DIALECTS // Tomsk Journal of Linguistics and Anthropology. 2016. Issue 2 (12). P. 20-26

The article studies the grammaticalization path of the Selkup lexical unit mi̮. The analysis of the Selkup dictionaries discovers the lack of the common interpretation of this lexical unit. The presented study aims to develop a possible strategy for the representation of the semantic and morphological information of Selkup mi̮ in the Selkup dictionaries. It is shown that for the representation of the grammatical and semantic status of mi̮ it is necessary to clarify its transitional state and define it as: 1) indefinite pronoun (substitution for nouns and verbs); and 2) the element serving for the formation of the new lexemes and compound words in phrases and sentences.

Keywords: the Selkup language, grammaticalization, semantics, grammaticalization paths, word formation

THE ORGANIZATION OF THE SEMANTIC STRUCTURE OF THE SELKUP LEXEMES (on the example of Vas., Ket., Tym., laga, laγa; Taz. laka) // Tomsk Journal of Linguistics and Anthropology. 2019. Issue 4 (26). P. 17-27

The Selkup language belongs to the only living language of the South Samoyed branch of the Samoyed group of the Ural language family. The peculiarities of the semantics of the Selkup dialects are of interest in connection with the increased attention to the issues of lexical typology in domestic and foreign linguistics, and to the languages of the indigenous peoples of Siberia, in particular. This article is devoted to the problems associated with the organization of the semantic structure of Selkup lexemes on the example of Vas., Ket., Tym., laga, laγa; Taz. laka. In our opinion, this lexeme is worthy of special study, since it is of great interest from the point of view of the implementation of its semantic structure and the ways of its representation in lexicographical sources. The article offers an analysis of examples from folklore and lexicographic Selkup sources, which revealed discrepancies both in the number of distinguished values of dialect variants, and in the very scheme of presentation of semantic information. Prose folklore published texts, archival records of Tomsk State Pedagogical University, field work with native speakers of the Narym dialect and Ivankino dialect of the Selkup language, as well as comparative research, including data from both related and genetically unrelated languages, served as material for analysis. During the analysis, it was possible to establish that the semantic structure of a lexical unit in a number of dictionaries is described as a polysemantic noun, but in fact such a description hardly answers the hierarchical scheme of polysemy. For completeness of semantic research and description of the features of the semantics of Vas., Ket., Tym., laga, laγa; Taz. laka the analysis included all the complex structures that are part of the relevant semantic paradigm. A study has shown that Vas., Ket., Tym., laga, laγa; Taz. laka is characterized by correlation with the concept of a broad scope, characterizing objects that denote a separate part of something or a certain set of homogeneous parts. The goal of the article is to develop a convenient strategy for the presentation of semantic information in Selkup lexicography using the analysis of the semantics of one lexeme as an example.

Keywords: Selkup language, folklore text, lexicography, dialects of Selkup language, semantics, vocabulary, polysemy, semantic derivation, grammaticalization, lexicolization