Reflexivity in Kazym Khanty

This paper discusses reflexivity strategies in the Kazym dialect of Khanty, an endangered Uralic language spoken in northwestern Siberia. Khanty is a language without dedicated reflexive pronouns (Nikolaeva 1995, 1999b); to express reflexivity Kazym Khanty speakers use personal pronouns, a doubled p...

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Main Authors: Anna Volkova, Svetlana Toldova
Format: Book Part
Language:English
Published: Language Science Press 2023
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khanty
Siberia
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7874948
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spelling ftzenodo:oai:zenodo.org:7874948 2024-09-15T18:16:31+00:00 Reflexivity in Kazym Khanty Anna Volkova Svetlana Toldova 2023-04-28 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7874948 eng eng Language Science Press isbn:978-3-96110-411-6 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7861660 https://zenodo.org/communities/langscipress https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7874947 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7874948 oai:zenodo.org:7874948 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode info:eu-repo/semantics/bookPart 2023 ftzenodo https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.787494810.5281/zenodo.786166010.5281/zenodo.7874947 2024-07-25T11:58:09Z This paper discusses reflexivity strategies in the Kazym dialect of Khanty, an endangered Uralic language spoken in northwestern Siberia. Khanty is a language without dedicated reflexive pronouns (Nikolaeva 1995, 1999b); to express reflexivity Kazym Khanty speakers use personal pronouns, a doubled pronoun construction or add a particle to a personal pronoun. For a closed class of verbs in Kazym Khanty detransitivising suffixes can be employed to convey the reflexive meaning. The absence of dedicated reflexive pronouns is a typological rarity, cross-linguistically they are considered the “norm” (Heine & Miyashita 2008; Moyse-Faurie 2008). The paper presents a hypothesis about how Kazym Khanty avoids excessive anaphoric ambiguity. Book Part khanty Siberia Zenodo
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description This paper discusses reflexivity strategies in the Kazym dialect of Khanty, an endangered Uralic language spoken in northwestern Siberia. Khanty is a language without dedicated reflexive pronouns (Nikolaeva 1995, 1999b); to express reflexivity Kazym Khanty speakers use personal pronouns, a doubled pronoun construction or add a particle to a personal pronoun. For a closed class of verbs in Kazym Khanty detransitivising suffixes can be employed to convey the reflexive meaning. The absence of dedicated reflexive pronouns is a typological rarity, cross-linguistically they are considered the “norm” (Heine & Miyashita 2008; Moyse-Faurie 2008). The paper presents a hypothesis about how Kazym Khanty avoids excessive anaphoric ambiguity.
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