Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences / Morphological Marking of an Object in the Erzya Language Dialects

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Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2025 18 (1)
Authors
Agafonova, Nina A.; Ryabov, Ivan N.
Contact information
Agafonova, Nina A.: National Rsearch N. Oragev Mordovia State University Saransk, Russian Federation; ohanina@rambler.ru; Ryabov, Ivan N.: National Rsearch N. Oragev Mordovia State University Saransk, Russian Federation; ryabov.74@bk.ru
Keywords
the Erzya language; accusative; object; definite morpheme; personal pronouns; verb; object conjugation
Abstract

The analysis of the Erzya language dialect materials collected during the expeditions indicates the presence of a common morphological marker of the object -tˊ in the forms of the noun definite inflection, in the singular personal pronouns, and in the forms of the objectal conjugation of verbs. The origin of this marker is possibly related to the ancient accusative suffix *-t, which has survived until today in the Hungarian and Khanty languages. The relic of the object morphological marker *-t is preserved in the Erzya dialectal suffix -śtˊ of the noun definite inflection. It can also be traced in the genitive-accusative forms of the personal pronouns tońtˊ ‘your’, ‘you’, sonzętˊ ‘him’. Originally, in these word forms, the -tˊ component expressed only the object semantics. The argument in favor of this point of view is the existence of the accusative forms of personal and interrogative pronouns in the Finnish language, and the similar forms of personal pronouns in the Khanty language. In a number of the Erzya language dialects, the object morphological marker -tˊ is found in the verbal paradigms of the object conjugation of the series mon sondę ‘I him’ in the suffixes of the future tense -satˊ / -catˊ and past tense -ińatˊ / – i͔ńatˊ, -ijatˊ / – i͔jatˊ. In their structure, these suffixes of the verb objective conjugation, in contrast to the corresponding forms of the Erzya codified language and many other dialects, have retained all the formal components that carry the semantics of time, subject and object

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34–44
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YINEPS
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https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/154374

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