Siberian Federal University

Issue

Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2025 18 (10)

Authors

Kurilova, Ladina G.

Contact information

Kurilova, Ladina G. : The Institute for Humanities Research and Indigenous Studies of the North SB RAS Yakutsk, Russian Federation; ; ORCID: 0000-0003-0019-2797

Keywords

Tundra Yukaghirs; category of quantity; plurality; reciprocal morphology; dyad forms; kinship terms; affinity terms; nouns; substantive confixation; semantics

Abstract

This article morphological markers of the category of quantity in Tundra Yukaghirs is examined. The nouns’s lexical composition contains special constructions – dyad forms, which denote a group of referents united by kinship and marital relations. They are formed using the comitative prefix ńi(ŋ)- and the suffixes -ji- and -l’; the first of them is identical to the indicator of multiplicity. Referents, consisting of the groups they name, can be connected by asymmetrical relations: for example, the dyad ńi-hawd’id’ie-jil’ ‘uncle and his nephew’, ‘mother’s younger brother and his nephew’ from the term hawd’id’ie ‘uncle’ is derived. The study of dyad forms is relevant for research into lexical semantics, methods of word formation, reciprocal morphology in linguistics. The aim of the study – to determine the dyad formation’s specifics in Tundra Yukaghirs. The study revealed that dyad forms are formed according to the model of substantive confixation. These forms convey the nature of reciprocal relations – kinship ties. Asymmetrical relations: mostly with consanguinity terms, symmetrical relations: mostly with affinity terms

Pages

1916–1923

EDN

ABHEHC

Paper at repository of SibFU

https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/157508

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