Negative participles in Surgut Khanty
Ksenia Shagal & Zsófia Schön (LMU Munich):
17.06.2024, 14:15–15:45
Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1 (Hauptgebäude), F 007
ksenia.shagal@lmu.de zsofia.schoen@lmu.de
Negative participles, i.e. specialized forms that are used as negative counterparts of affirmative participles in a given language, are a typologically rare phenomenon, and yet they are fairly common within the Uralic language family. In our talk, we are going to discuss various properties of negative participles in Surgut Khanty (Yugan and Tromagan subdialects) based on a corpus of 135 000 words collected in 2010–2017. We will show that it is very important to focus on the actual use of negative participles rather than their functional potential, as earlier studies on other languages have discovered a significant mismatch between the two.