COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF SOUTHERN SELKUP AND EASTERN KHANTY POSTPOSITIONS

Varda V.E.

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The paper reviews postpositions of two endangered indigenous Uralic languages of Western Siberia: Southern Selkup and Eastern Khanty. These languages have remote genetic affiliation and an extended cultural and linguistic contact, co-inhabiting the area of middle Ob river flows of Tomsk region. The main focus of the discussion is the comparative analysis of postpositions of these two languages on the basis of existing grammars. Postpositions are usually used to express spatial temporal notions. They typically represent a model of space-time metaphor. Selkup postpositions are divided into serial and non-serial. Khanty postpositions are divided into etymologically nontransparent postpositions proper and postpositional use of nouns.

Keywords: postposition, selkup, khanty, case, space, time

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Issue: 10, 2014

Series of issue: Issue 10

Rubric: COMPARATIVE STUDIES

Pages: 87 — 93

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