East Mansi
Abstract East Mansi, the easternmost Mansi variety, was spoken in the area of the river Konda, a tributary of the river Irtysh, in Western Siberia. After the end of the twentieth century, there are no fluent speakers alive, but the language is reasonably well documented, also thanks to a massive cor...
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croxfordunivpr:10.1093/oso/9780198767664.003.0030 2023-05-15T17:10:12+02:00 East Mansi Forsberg, Ulla-Maija 2022 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198767664.003.0030 https://academic.oup.com/book/chapter-pdf/47096478/oso-9780198767664-chapter-30.pdf unknown Oxford University PressOxford The Oxford Guide to the Uralic Languages page 565-581 ISBN 0198767668 9780198767664 9780191821516 book-chapter 2022 croxfordunivpr https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198767664.003.0030 2022-12-29T15:40:16Z Abstract East Mansi, the easternmost Mansi variety, was spoken in the area of the river Konda, a tributary of the river Irtysh, in Western Siberia. After the end of the twentieth century, there are no fluent speakers alive, but the language is reasonably well documented, also thanks to a massive corpus of folklore texts collected before World War I. From the perspective of both phonology and morphology, East Mansi shows more complexity than North Mansi. East Mansi is rich in verbal morphology, showing several tenses in the Conditional/Conjunctive mood and both conditional and optative mood for the passive, as well as converbs for different functions. The use of the passive and the “dative shift” (both important from the point of view of information structuring) are closer to North Mansi. In fact, they represent morphosyntactic structures that are common to the whole Ob-Ugric linguistic area. Book Part mansi Mansi Siberia Oxford University Press (via Crossref) 564 581 |
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Abstract East Mansi, the easternmost Mansi variety, was spoken in the area of the river Konda, a tributary of the river Irtysh, in Western Siberia. After the end of the twentieth century, there are no fluent speakers alive, but the language is reasonably well documented, also thanks to a massive corpus of folklore texts collected before World War I. From the perspective of both phonology and morphology, East Mansi shows more complexity than North Mansi. East Mansi is rich in verbal morphology, showing several tenses in the Conditional/Conjunctive mood and both conditional and optative mood for the passive, as well as converbs for different functions. The use of the passive and the “dative shift” (both important from the point of view of information structuring) are closer to North Mansi. In fact, they represent morphosyntactic structures that are common to the whole Ob-Ugric linguistic area. |
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