East Khanty

Schön, Zsófia and Gugán, Katalin (2022): East Khanty. In: Bakró-Nagy, Marianne; Laakso, Johanna and Skribnik, Elena (eds.) : The Oxford Guide to the Uralic Languages. Oxford University Press. pp. 608-635

Abstract

East Khanty is a dialect group consisting of three major dialects (Vakh-Vasyugan, Surgut, and Salym), each with further subvariants. Owing to the significant dialectal differences between the major groups, the chapter focuses on the Surgut dialect. Surgut Khanty itself is a cover term for the variants spoken in a vast territory along the rivers Pym, Tromagan, Agan, Bolshoy Yugan, and Malyy Yugan, but these subdialects are mutually intelligible. Our analysis will be based on the literary norm developed for this dialect (transliterated into IPA), but we will also investigate subdialectal variants, if necessary. We will describe the dialect from a synchronic point of view, with special attention to its special features, e.g. paradigmatic vowel alternation, zero-marked past vs marked present, absence of grammatical cases, a rich system of non-finite verb forms, and the emergence of finite subordination. A glossed text example is provided.

• Item Type: Book Section
• Form of publication: Publisher's Version
• Keywords: Khanty; East Khanty; Ob-Ugric; Ugric; minority language; Russia; Siberia
• Faculties: Languages and Literatures
• Subjects: 400 Language > 410 Linguistics
• ISBN: 9780191821516; 9780198767664
• Language: English