Pronominal System of Soikkola Ingrian: Interrogative/Relative, Indefinite, and Negative Pronouns and Their Variation

The paper analyses several classes of pronouns in the Soikkola dialect of the Ingrian language, namely interrogative/relative, indefinite, and negative pronouns. These classes of pronouns belong to one of the most underdescribed parts of Ingrian morphology, so the main goal of the paper is descripti...

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Main Authors: Anna Schwarz, Fedor Rozhanskiy
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Language:deu
Published: Estonian Academy Publishers 2024-12-01
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description The paper analyses several classes of pronouns in the Soikkola dialect of the Ingrian language, namely interrogative/relative, indefinite, and negative pronouns. These classes of pronouns belong to one of the most underdescribed parts of Ingrian morphology, so the main goal of the paper is descriptive. Special focus is placed on the analysis of variation within pronoun classes. While variation in interrogative/relative pronouns mostly concerns minor aspects of their formation, indefinite and negative pronouns show many competing variants. In the case of indefinite pronouns, this variation arises from indefinite suffixes with different origins and functions. Negative pronouns have another source of variation: the morphophonological processes that can occur when a pronominal stem is concatenated with the negative particle kaa/kää. In all these classes of pronouns, we usually observe idiolectal and free variation, while contextual and register variation occurs less frequently.
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spelling doaj-art-cadf2938765e4dfb8d1e335e91dfece32024-12-10T18:54:26ZdeuEstonian Academy PublishersLinguistica Uralica0868-47311736-75062024-12-01604271295https://doi.org/10.3176/lu.2024.4.02https://doi.org/10.3176/lu.2024.4.02Pronominal System of Soikkola Ingrian: Interrogative/Relative, Indefinite, and Negative Pronouns and Their VariationAnna Schwarz0Fedor Rozhanskiy1Institute of Oriental Studies RASUniversity of TartuThe paper analyses several classes of pronouns in the Soikkola dialect of the Ingrian language, namely interrogative/relative, indefinite, and negative pronouns. These classes of pronouns belong to one of the most underdescribed parts of Ingrian morphology, so the main goal of the paper is descriptive. Special focus is placed on the analysis of variation within pronoun classes. While variation in interrogative/relative pronouns mostly concerns minor aspects of their formation, indefinite and negative pronouns show many competing variants. In the case of indefinite pronouns, this variation arises from indefinite suffixes with different origins and functions. Negative pronouns have another source of variation: the morphophonological processes that can occur when a pronominal stem is concatenated with the negative particle kaa/kää. In all these classes of pronouns, we usually observe idiolectal and free variation, while contextual and register variation occurs less frequently.https://kirj.ee/wp-content/plugins/kirj/pub/ling-2024-4-271-295_20241210120006.pdfingrian; pronouns; interrogative pronouns; relative pronouns; indefinite pronouns; negative pronouns; variation; description
spellingShingle Anna Schwarz
Fedor Rozhanskiy
Pronominal System of Soikkola Ingrian: Interrogative/Relative, Indefinite, and Negative Pronouns and Their Variation
Linguistica Uralica
ingrian; pronouns; interrogative pronouns; relative pronouns; indefinite pronouns; negative pronouns; variation; description
title Pronominal System of Soikkola Ingrian: Interrogative/Relative, Indefinite, and Negative Pronouns and Their Variation
title_full Pronominal System of Soikkola Ingrian: Interrogative/Relative, Indefinite, and Negative Pronouns and Their Variation
title_fullStr Pronominal System of Soikkola Ingrian: Interrogative/Relative, Indefinite, and Negative Pronouns and Their Variation
title_full_unstemmed Pronominal System of Soikkola Ingrian: Interrogative/Relative, Indefinite, and Negative Pronouns and Their Variation
title_short Pronominal System of Soikkola Ingrian: Interrogative/Relative, Indefinite, and Negative Pronouns and Their Variation
title_sort pronominal system of soikkola ingrian interrogative relative indefinite and negative pronouns and their variation
topic ingrian; pronouns; interrogative pronouns; relative pronouns; indefinite pronouns; negative pronouns; variation; description
url https://kirj.ee/wp-content/plugins/kirj/pub/ling-2024-4-271-295_20241210120006.pdf
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