Notes on the Modal Predicator naada in Sakha (from a Taimyr Dolgan Perspective)

This paper addresses the syntax, semantics, and history of the modal deontic predictors naada and tustaax in Sakha and contrasts their use with Sakha's closest linguistic relative Taimyr Dolgan. In this respect, this study is a continuation of Siegl (2019), which, in passing, already reported s...

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Published in:Studia Orientalia Electronica
Main Author: Florian Siegl
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Finnish Oriental Society 2021
Subjects:
sakha
taimyr dolgan
kolyma yukaghir
tundra yukaghir
deontic modality
borrowing
contrastive grammar
History of Asia
DS1-937
History of Africa
DT1-3415
Languages and literature of Eastern Asia
Africa
Oceania
PL1-8844
Sakha
Kolyma
Luke
Kolyma Yukaghir
Taimyr
Tundra
Yukaghir
Siberia
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.23993/store.95601
https://doaj.org/article/38cc0c4fe5454b46bd6a4697e9a7d12a
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Summary:This paper addresses the syntax, semantics, and history of the modal deontic predictors naada and tustaax in Sakha and contrasts their use with Sakha's closest linguistic relative Taimyr Dolgan. In this respect, this study is a continuation of Siegl (2019), which, in passing, already reported similarities and dissimilarities in these two closely related Turkic languages of Northern and Northeastern Siberia. A contrastive analysis based on recent translations of the Gospel of Luke (which for the time being is the only longer text available in both languages) confirms that the genealogical proximity of Sakha and Taimyr Dolgan is not reflected in the use of naada and tustaax. The study concludes with a superficial look at the fate of Russian nado in Kolyma and Tundra Yukaghir. Even though the lexeme is obviously of Russian origin, Kolyma Yukaghir but especially Tundra Yukaghir data shows several similarities with Sakha naada, which are absent from Russian and therefore imply Sakha influence.

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