Discourse organisation in Northern Mansi: new findings
Daria Zhornik (LMU Munich)
03.11.2025, 14:15–15:45
Geschw.-Scholl-Pl. 1 (Hauptgebäude), A 016
https://lmu-munich.zoom-x.de/j/93938720682?pwd=ZnRCV1JnL2w4SVdvMHlCTEtWL2NjZz09
Meeting ID: 939 3872 0682
Passcode: 284661
In this talk, I will present the findings of the research carried out in my doctoral dissertation on discourse organization in Northern Mansi. I will discuss the factors that influence the behavior of the following linguistic categories in Northern Mansi: voice and agreement (subject agreement vs. object agreement vs. passive voice), referential form of the agent and patient participants (e.g. full noun phrase vs. personal pronoun vs. zero-reference and others), discourse particles ta and ti. These categories were researched based on a data set of Northern Mansi narratives gathered in the 1930s. The dataset was annotated for a number of parameters, and a simple statistical analysis based on the decision tree method was applied. In my talk, I will discuss the results of this analysis, limitations of the approach and possible extensions of this research.