Čalbmi čalmmis ja suoldnečalmmit suoidnečalmmis
North Saami čalbmi ‘eye’ (< Proto-Uralic *ćilmä) has cognates in all Uralic languages, and everywhere they refer to the visual organs of humans and animals. However, scholars have barely paid attention to the grammatical functions of čalbmi in compound-like formations such as suoldnečalbmi “dew e...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:bdd7a67cc00a4101ab1349c1cade04bb 2023-05-15T17:02:52+02:00 Čalbmi čalmmis ja suoldnečalmmit suoidnečalmmis Jussi Ylikoski 2022-08-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.7557/12.6304 https://doaj.org/article/bdd7a67cc00a4101ab1349c1cade04bb EN NO eng nor Septentrio Academic Publishing https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlyd/article/view/6304 https://doaj.org/toc/1503-8599 doi:10.7557/12.6304 1503-8599 https://doaj.org/article/bdd7a67cc00a4101ab1349c1cade04bb Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, Vol 46, Iss 1 (2022) Saami languages singulatives number Language. Linguistic theory. Comparative grammar P101-410 article 2022 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.7557/12.6304 2022-12-30T20:03:53Z North Saami čalbmi ‘eye’ (< Proto-Uralic *ćilmä) has cognates in all Uralic languages, and everywhere they refer to the visual organs of humans and animals. However, scholars have barely paid attention to the grammatical functions of čalbmi in compound-like formations such as suoldnečalbmi “dew eye”, suoidnečalbmi “grass eye”, varračalbmi “blood eye”, jiekŋačalbmi “ice eye”, vuoktačalbmi “hair eye” and muorječalbmi “berry eye”. This article examines such expressions as so-called singulatives – grammatical means for individuating a single referent from a group or mass (i.e., ‘a single drop of dew’, ‘a single blade of grass’, ‘a single drop of blood’, ‘a single crystal of ice’, ‘a single human hair’ and ‘a single berry’). The article mainly discusses morphological, syntactic and semantic features of singulatives in North Saami and other present-day Saami languages, but comparable singulatives in Khanty, Mansi and Samoyed languages as well as in Hungarian suggest that singulative expressions such as *weri-ćilmä ‘a single drop of blood’, *jäŋi-ćilmä ‘a single crystal of ice; hailstone’ and *me̮rja-ćilmä ‘a single berry’ can, in principle, be reconstructed all the way back to Proto-Uralic. Article in Journal/Newspaper khanty khanty-mansi mansi saami samoyed* Mansi Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Nordlyd 46 1 |
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North Saami čalbmi ‘eye’ (< Proto-Uralic *ćilmä) has cognates in all Uralic languages, and everywhere they refer to the visual organs of humans and animals. However, scholars have barely paid attention to the grammatical functions of čalbmi in compound-like formations such as suoldnečalbmi “dew eye”, suoidnečalbmi “grass eye”, varračalbmi “blood eye”, jiekŋačalbmi “ice eye”, vuoktačalbmi “hair eye” and muorječalbmi “berry eye”. This article examines such expressions as so-called singulatives – grammatical means for individuating a single referent from a group or mass (i.e., ‘a single drop of dew’, ‘a single blade of grass’, ‘a single drop of blood’, ‘a single crystal of ice’, ‘a single human hair’ and ‘a single berry’). The article mainly discusses morphological, syntactic and semantic features of singulatives in North Saami and other present-day Saami languages, but comparable singulatives in Khanty, Mansi and Samoyed languages as well as in Hungarian suggest that singulative expressions such as *weri-ćilmä ‘a single drop of blood’, *jäŋi-ćilmä ‘a single crystal of ice; hailstone’ and *me̮rja-ćilmä ‘a single berry’ can, in principle, be reconstructed all the way back to Proto-Uralic. |
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