STRATEGIES OF THE PREDICATIVE POSSESSION FORMATION IN SELKUP DIALECTS

Kim Alexandra Arkad'evna, Kovylin Sergei Vasilievich

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Kim A. A., doctor filol. nauk, professor. Tomsk State Pedagogical University. Ul. Kievskaya, 60, Tomsk, Russia, 634061. National Research Tomsk State University. Pr. Lenina, 36, Tomsk, 634050. E-mail: alexandrakim@hotmail.com Kovylin S. V., magistrant. Tomsk State Pedagogical University. Ul. Kievskaya, 60, Tomsk, Russia, 634061. E-mail: kovylin.ser@yandex.ru

This article aims at discovering basic strategies of predicative possession formation in Selkup dialects. It is an integral part of a current typological project that examines the verbalization of the notion/concept of predicative possession in the Ob-Yenisei linguistic area. After Stassen (2009, 2013), we give prominence to formal criteria based on the syntactic encoding of Possessor and Possessee instead that to semantic ones. According to Stassen, the predicative possessive constructions observed in the languages of the world can be reduced to five syntactic patterns only. Four construction strategies are found in Selkup dialects although only locational possessive and Genitive possessive occupy the central part in this system while two other strategies belong to the periphery: [Possessor-LOC + V.ex. + Possessee] (Locational Possessive) [Possessor-GEN + Possessee + V.ex.] (Genitive Possessive). [Possessor + Possessee-COM.INSTR + V.ex.] (Conjunctional Possessive). [Possessor + V.tr. + Possessee] (Have-Possession). In conclusion, we can state that, in the case of Selkup, in expressions of ‘having’ the Possessor is given emphasis and the predicate is a transitive verb, while in expressions of ‘belonging’ the Possessee is given emphasis and the predicate is copular.

Keywords: dialects of the Selkup language, predicative, locative, genitive comitative, transitive possessive

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