Recent Contact-Induced Morphosyntactic Changes in the Lower Kolyma Region

IF 0.5 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

Journal of Language Contact Pub Date : 2024-06-18 DOI:10.1163/19552629-01701002

Dejan Matić, Irina Nikolaeva

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Abstract

The paper deals with recent contact-induced changes in the grammar of two languages of the Lower Kolyma tundra, Tundra Yukaghir (TY) and Lower Kolyma Even (LKE). The morphosyntax of these languages has undergone a rather strong influence from Sakha in the course of the 20th century. The investigation focusses on the structural copying of Sakha patterns into TY and LKE, which resulted in the emergence of several new categories, in particular, the future imperative, the necessitive based on the future participle with or without proprietive marking, evaluative morphology, and contrastive markers deriving from the converbs of the copula verb. In addition, the TY system of differential object marking has changed under the influence of Sakha. These phenomena are interpreted against their historical and sociolinguistic settings, specifically, the types of multilingual situations in the region. The ramifications of the findings for the theory of language contact are also discussed.

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下科雷马地区近期由接触引起的形态句法变化

本文论述了下科雷马冻原的两种语言--冻原尤卡吉尔语（TY）和下科雷马埃文语（LKE）--的语法最近因接触而发生的变化。这两种语言的形态句法在 20 世纪受到了萨哈语的强烈影响。调查的重点是萨哈语模式在结构上被复制到 TY 和 LKE 中的情况，这导致了几个新类别的出现，特别是未来祈使句、基于未来分词的带有或不带有本体标记的必然祈使句、评价语态和源自共轭动词转换词的对比标记。此外，在萨哈语的影响下，TY 的差别宾语标记系统也发生了变化。这些现象将根据其历史和社会语言环境，特别是该地区的多语言情况类型进行解释。此外，还讨论了这些发现对语言接触理论的影响。

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Journal of Language Contact LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS-

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Language Contact (JLC) is a peer-reviewed open access journal. It focuses on the study of language contact, language use and language change in accordance with a view of language contact whereby both empirical data (the precise description of languages and how they are used) and the resulting theoretical elaborations (hence the statement and analysis of new problems) become the primary engines for advancing our understanding of the nature of language. This involves linguistic, anthropological, historical, and cognitive factors. Such an approach makes a major new contribution to understanding language change at a time when there is a notable increase of interest and activity in this field. The Journal of Language Contact accepts articles in English and French.