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Original article

 

The Object Forms of the Past Tense Verb in the Velyazemsky-Kargalian Dialects of the Moksha language

 

Ivanova G. S., Belkina O. V., Pakhmutova E. D.

 

 

Abstract

Introduction. The object conjugation of the Moksha language is characterized by the presence of personal formants indicating the person and number of both the subject and the object of action. Only transitive verbs and some intransitive verbs used in the meaning of transitive verbs can change by object conjugation. In this study, we describe the object forms of the past tense in the Velazem-Kargal dialects of the Moksha language.

Materials and methods. The material for analysis was dialect data collected from 2010 to 2021 in the regions of the Republic of Mordovia, where the Moksha population lives compactly. The main method of the research is synchronous-descriptive, with the help of which the state of the Velazemsk-Kargal conversations is characterized. To determine the distinctive features, a comparative method is used.

Results and discussion. As a result of the study, the presence of homonymous formants was revealed, characteristic of the plural of the 1st and 3rd persons in the series tojnʼ “him” and tinʼnʼ “you”, as well as for the singular forms of the 1st and 3rd faces in a row tinʼnʼ. The development of some formants as part of subject-object suffixes is typical for the Velyazem-Kargal dialects. Particular attention is paid to the agglutination of subject and object indicators, the differentiation of which affected both the root morpheme and subject-object formants at the phonetic level.

Conclusion. Prospects for further research are seen in the comprehensive study of verb morphology in Moksha dialects in order to create a dialectological atlas, which will show the paradigm of verb change at the present stage and in diachrony.

Keywords: dialect, verb, conjugation, subject-object formant, Moksha language

For citation: Ivanova GS, Belkina OV. The Object Forms of the Past Tense Verb in the Velyazemsky-Kargalian Dialects of the Moksha language. Bulletin of the Research Institute of the Humanities by the Government of the Republic of Mordovia. 2024;16(2):197—205. EDN AWURJD

 

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The article was submitted 21.03.2024; approved after reviewing 23.04.2024; accepted for publication 27.04.2024.

 

Information about the authors:

Galina S. Ivanova, Professor of the Department of Mordovian Languages of National Research Mordovia State University (68/4 Bolshevistskaya Str., Saransk 430005, Russia), Doctor of Philological Sciences, Associate Professor, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7717-543X, galina17-05@yandex.ru

Oksana V. Belkina, Postgraduate Student of the Department of Linguistics, Junior Researcher of the Department of Linguistics of the Research Institute of the Humanities by the Government of the Republic of Mordovia (3 L. Tolstogo Str., Saransk 430005, Russia), ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1550-7368 , ksyushabelkina1997@ mail.ru

Elena D. Pakhmutova, Associate Professor of the Department of German Philology of National Research Mordovia State University (68 Bolshevistskaya Str., Saransk 430005, Russia), Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2317-4778, pahmutova@mail.ru

 

Contribution of the authors:

Ivanova G. S. — concept development, methodology development, literature analysis, scientific editing of the text;

Belkina O. V. — literature analysis, writing the original version of the article, data collection and processing;

Рakhmutova E. D. — concept development, methodology development, literature analysis.

 

Conflict of interests: the authors declare no conflict of interests.

 

The authors have read and approved the final version of the manuscript.