Active and Passive Constructions in the Khanty Language

Mymrina D.F.

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One distinguishes two types of syntactic construction in the Khanty language: the active and the passive ones. In this article we study the peculiarities of their formation and use in the dialects of the Khanty language. This work is also concerned with the use of a noun (the agent) in the form of the locative in the “passive” construction, which can be explained by the influence of the category of definitiness/ indefinitiness typical of the Uralic languages. The results of the analysis of the “passive” prove its outstanding status in the Uralic languages.

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Issue: 4, 2005

Series of issue: Humanities (Philology: Indoeuropean and Siberian languages)

Rubric: Siberian Languages

Pages: 95 — 99

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