{"title":"Formulas of hospitality in Russian fairy tales of the Urals and Siberia","authors":"M. V. Reili","doi":"10.25205/2312-6337-2022-2-9-22","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25205/2312-6337-2022-2-9-22","url":null,"abstract":"The paper discusses the complexity and multidimensionality of the image of Baba Yaga in the Siberian fairytale tradition. The most important functions of the Russian fairytale characters are marked with formulas. The aim was to identify the place and role of traditional formulas of hospitality in Russian fairy tales of Siberia and the Ural characteristic for the depiction of the meeting of Yaga-helper and the protagonist hero by analyzing their structure and functions. Since the theme concerned has not been studied enough in the scientific literature, this work is not of theoretical but rather of a textological nature. The formulas of the fairytale texts from the most famous Siberian collections were studied and compared with similar or complementary formulas typical of North Russian and South Russian fairy tales. The author proceeds from the division of the fairytale formulas into three large groups: initial, medial, and final. A preliminary classification of internal medial formulas has been proposed within the framework of the topic in question, clarifying the classification by N. Roshiyanu. Additionally, the regional specificity of these formulas has been revealed. Speaking about the formulas of hospitality, both verbal and non-verbal, the behavioral markers in the process of communication between the hero and Yaga were taken into account.","PeriodicalId":112261,"journal":{"name":"Languages and Folklore of Indigenous Peoples of Siberia","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125446472","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Algas genre in Khakass ritual poetry: a functional aspect","authors":"V. V. Mindibekova","doi":"10.25205/2312-6337-2023-1-58-66","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25205/2312-6337-2023-1-58-66","url":null,"abstract":"Good-wishing was of great importance in the traditional culture of the Khakas. Every traditional event is accompanied by a verbal performance of good wishes. Khakas people believed good wishes to carry faith in the magical power of words, with a potential to improve one’s life, to bring well-being into it. Algas represents a multifunctional phenomenon in Khakass folklore, including lessings, benedictions, incantations, and prayers. The aim of the work was to systematize the good-wishes, to reveal the features of functioning, to generalize the esearch results on the ritual poetry of the Khakasses. The study covers the texts of good-wishes recorded and translated by the outstanding Turkologist N. F. Katanov. They include about 70 unique cultic texts in Beltyr, Sagai and Kachin dialects of the Abakan Tatars recorded in 1878–1892 and are accompanied by a complete ethnographic description of the rituals, the attributes used in the rituals; the actions performed by shamans, and their spells addressed to the deities and pirit-masters of the terrain. The analysis revealed two main hematic variants of the algas genre in the ritual poetry of the Khakas: (1) the texts of shamanic ceremonies performed for a request for help and (2) the thematic ariant including well-wishes, blessings, and parting words. The ritual function is that algas is an integral part of rituals and shamanistic ceremonies, eflecting the specific material and spiritual culture of the Khakasses. The artistic and aesthetic functions are enriching the poetic language of algas by means of artistic expression and syntactic means.","PeriodicalId":112261,"journal":{"name":"Languages and Folklore of Indigenous Peoples of Siberia","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130267484","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The talent of being Human (on the 85th birthday of Svetlana Pavlovna Rozhnova)","authors":"E. N. Kuz’mina","doi":"10.25205/2312-6337-2020-2-128-132","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25205/2312-6337-2020-2-128-132","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":112261,"journal":{"name":"Languages and Folklore of Indigenous Peoples of Siberia","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127798542","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Poetic formulas of Belarusian carol and volochebnye songs. Problems of correlation of Irtysh region migrants' and maternal traditions","authors":"S. Myasnikova","doi":"10.25205/2312-6337-2019-1-33-40","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25205/2312-6337-2019-1-33-40","url":null,"abstract":"The article analyzes the poetic formulas of the Belarusian carol and volochebnye songs recorded in Omsk Irtysh region. The poetic formula is stable and repeatable, like the motive, but it does not have the motivation and the structure of the sentence, most often it is expressed in a quotation from the song text, which is absolutely not characteristic of the motive. The isolation and analysis of the poetic formulas of text corpora can provide a visual representation of a particular tradition. The aim of the study is to demonstrate the folk material recorded in the Irtysh through the prism of comparative analysis with the material of the maternal tradition. To isolate poetic formulas, the author has compiled a systematic, informative catalog that does not allow the full scope of the article to be published. But for clarity, the work demonstrated selected groups reflecting the architectonics of songs and containing their classification and systematization sections. The study resulted in conclusions that, on the one hand, the classification and systematization of regional Omsk records demonstrates a significant degree of loss of resettlement material. This is manifested in a small number of selected poetic formulas (in comparison with the place of outcome of the tradition), in the fragmentaryness and loss of textual elements, as part of subject groups. On the other hand, there is a strong connection with the maternal tradition which is reflected in the presence of typical ritual formulas, their full or partial coincidence with the formulas of а Belarusian texts.","PeriodicalId":112261,"journal":{"name":"Languages and Folklore of Indigenous Peoples of Siberia","volume":"89 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128901189","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Previously undescribed vowel type: dufons","authors":"N. Urtegeshev","doi":"10.25205/2312-6337-2022-1-73-81","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25205/2312-6337-2022-1-73-81","url":null,"abstract":"In general phonetics, vowels are considered as speech sounds pronounced without any stricture in the epiglottic cavities, with the lips, tongue, and soft palate playing a special role in their formation. In terms of structure, a distinction is made between monophthongs and diphthongs. We believe vowel formation to be influenced by numerous barriers and regard the role of lips, tongue, and soft palate as secondary one, that is, they provide only additional articulation. Of particular interest is the function of larynx with its different departments and folds. We assign a special role in the formation of vowels to vocal folds. We define vowels as laryngeal-ligamentous glottal-non-glottal and distinguish between laryngeal-rounded and laryngeal-non-rounded sounds. According to this account, a detailed acoustic analysis of linguistic material in different languages (Bashkir, Surgut dialect of Khanty, Orochon, Mennonite language) revealed a new type of vowels that had not been described in the scientific literature before. We termed such vowel sounds dufons with the following definition: dufons are semi-long laryngeal-ligamentous glottal-non-silent (vowel) sounds with a complex structure: they have two vocal components of different types and unequal durations within one core without a glottal insertion (for example, oѣa, oѣъ, eѣa).","PeriodicalId":112261,"journal":{"name":"Languages and Folklore of Indigenous Peoples of Siberia","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117004515","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A hero with a “head of a dog and a body of a fish” in the Altai heroic epic: On the formation of the mythological basis for an epic legend (based on the epic “Kan-T’elbekey” by E. K. Tashtamysheva)","authors":"E. Yamaeva","doi":"10.25205/2312-6337-2023-1-49-57","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25205/2312-6337-2023-1-49-57","url":null,"abstract":"This article studies the folklore of the Altaic peoples. The novelty of the work is in introducing and interpreting the little-known material of Altai epic into the scientific circulation. The hero of the legend under study has a head of a dog and a body in the shape of a fish. His birth was accompanied by a snowfall that covered the ground to the tops of the trees, followed by cold and famine. The family leaves the shelter having locked him in the palace and covered him with stones. The hero survives and gets to the new place of residence of his relatives. He sees in his dream the conquest of the country, warns his family, and leaves them. His first heroic act is killing the giant who conquered the country of his protectors. He gets married to their daughter with an ability to transform into a goose. Further heroic acts are connected with his liberation of the country and descent into the underworld in order to get married to the daughter of the underground lord. No descriptions of heroic fights have been found in the epic literature. The study resulted in identifying the epic mythological basis and revealing the parallels with the plots of the legends of the Ancient East in separate fragments.","PeriodicalId":112261,"journal":{"name":"Languages and Folklore of Indigenous Peoples of Siberia","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132421239","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On Tuvan function word sug","authors":"A. Bayyr-ool","doi":"10.25205/2312-6337-2019-2-73-77","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25205/2312-6337-2019-2-73-77","url":null,"abstract":"In the following article, we analyze the meanings and functions of the polysemantic function word sug in the Tuvan language. It is commonly used to denote the collective meaning, or group multitude: ‘his family’, ‘his friends’, ‘his home’. Among the Siberian Turkic languages, functional analogues of this meaning of the word sug are found in the Yakut language, which has a number of specific traits in common with the Tuvan language. In its collective meaning, the particle sug attracts some grammatical markers of the nouns (case affixes, the possessive form with =nyy with the affirmative particle =dyr) which it is combined. The function word sug is also used as an expressive-distinguishing par-ticle: combined with the dep marker and the speech verb de= ‘to speak’, ‘to say’, it is used for emotional and expressive direct speech.","PeriodicalId":112261,"journal":{"name":"Languages and Folklore of Indigenous Peoples of Siberia","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132502305","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reduction as a mechanism of variation of comparative analytical-synthetic polypredicative constructions with the postposition shylap // schylap // schynap ‘as if’ in the Chalkan language","authors":"N. Fedina, N. B. Koshkareva","doi":"10.25205/2312-6337-2023-2-53-64","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25205/2312-6337-2023-2-53-64","url":null,"abstract":"The Chalkan language employs analytical-synthetic polypredicative constructions with the postposition shylap // shylap // shynap ‘as if’ to express comparative relations, indicating an equivalent relationship between two events. These constructions comprise a main clause (the subject of comparison), a subordinate clause (a standard of comparison). А dependent subject expressed by the name in the nominative, and a dependent predicate expressed by a participle with the affix =atan combined with a postposition. When both clauses express the events from the same denotative sphere and indicate similar actions, the dependent predicate is most often omitted, as it nominates the same action already expressed by the predicate of the main part, with the postposition directly after the dependent subject. When the events are from different denotative spheres, the structure and semantics of the utterance are asymmetric: comparative relations link the main clause and the missing component, symbolizing an accepted or associative standard for events of this class. The subordinate clause expresses conditional or temporal relationships with an explicitly non-expressed component. The postposition of the subordinate clause semantically correlates with the implicit standard of comparison. A two-clause structure semantically involves three components: comparison subject, comparison standard, and the consequence implied by the unexpressed component. Comparative analytical-synthetic polypredicative constructions feature the reduction of either the subordinate clause predicate or the component indicating the reference standard. Also, reduction may affect the parameter restored by the context or guessed by traditional associative relations. The main clause, the dependent subject, and the postposition are never reduced.","PeriodicalId":112261,"journal":{"name":"Languages and Folklore of Indigenous Peoples of Siberia","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125437998","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Edward Alekseyev – founder of Yakut ethnomusicology","authors":"A. S. Larionova","doi":"10.25205/2312-6337-2021-1-163-172","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25205/2312-6337-2021-1-163-172","url":null,"abstract":"The paper studies the life and creative path of the outstanding Russian ethnomusicologist E. E. Alekseev. He was born in 1937 in Yakutsk. He studied at the Moscow State Conservatory, named after P. I. Tchaikovsky. He wrote a large number of scientific papers. To a great extent, he explored the mode-scale and mode-intonation sphere of Yakut folk song and early folklore traditional music. He created models of the mode-intonation basis of archaic singing. He also studied various aspects of the traditional singing of Yakuts: genres and styles, the connections of the word and music of Yakut folk songs, the heterophonic polyphony of the Yakut ritual osuokhai, and the Yakut folk instrument khomus. Together with N. N. Nikolaeva, he published the collection of Yakut folk songs of various styles and genres (“Samples of Yakut song folklore”). He conducted the editorial work on the publication of other researchers’ works. He edited the piano works of G. A. Grigoryan. He participated in the release of the record “Ustin Nokhsorov Sings” and the creation of the documentary “Times of dreams” about shamans of Siberia and the Far East. As a composer, he created romances, choirs, and treatments of folk songs. He composed “Sergelyakhsky sketches” comprising 4 piano pieces. Together with composer G. N. Komrakov, he created the opera “Song of Manchary” on a historical plot. His research work is being developed by Russian and foreign researchers of musical folklore. A lot of statements put forward by E. E. Alekseev have further prospects for study.","PeriodicalId":112261,"journal":{"name":"Languages and Folklore of Indigenous Peoples of Siberia","volume":"124 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128152090","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The conditional mood in the Chalkan language","authors":"N. Fedina","doi":"10.25205/2312-6337-2020-2-89-97","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25205/2312-6337-2020-2-89-97","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes the conditional mood in the Chalkan language, which is expressed via the affix =zа (=zï) and can be formed in two ways: simple one when the =za form is attached to the stem of a simple verb; analytical one when the main verb is formed by various tense forms, and the verb pol= “to be” is used as an auxiliary verb in the form of =zа conditional mood. Such verbs may serve as finite predicates in simple sentences and predicates in subordinate clauses in complex sentences. As finite predicates in simple sentences, conditional mood markers may possess the meaning of de- sire to commit an action. However, the action tends to remain just a desire or regret of failure to perform the action. Verbs in the form of conditional mood as predicates in subordinate clauses in complex sentences express the conditionality of completing the action. If one event takes place, another one may also happen. The =zа form expresses the alternative ways of completing the action. The negative form of the conditional mood is formed by adding the negative affix =vа to the verb stem. In analytical verbal constructions, the negative form is added to the main verb, and the personal and conditional affixes are added to the auxiliary verb. Negative verbal constructions in the conditional form as a predicate of the subordinate clauses in complex sentences express the semantics of conditionality. The negative construction denotes the condition. If the action was not committed or is not to be committed, something has to be done to fulfill the condition.","PeriodicalId":112261,"journal":{"name":"Languages and Folklore of Indigenous Peoples of Siberia","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116980264","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}