Stress in Proto-Samoyedic and its external correspondences.
II. External correspondences of the Selkup word accent in the Northern Samoyedic and Finno-Ugric languages Cover Image

Прасамодийское ударение и его внешние соответствия Часть II. Внешние соответствия селькупского разноместного ударения в северно-самодийских и финно-угорских языках
Stress in Proto-Samoyedic and its external correspondences. II. External correspondences of the Selkup word accent in the Northern Samoyedic and Finno-Ugric languages

Author(s): Juliya Victorovna Normanskaya
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Morphology, Lexis, Historical Linguistics
Published by: Институт языкознания Российской академии наук
Keywords: word accent; stress; the Selkup language; the Nenets language; comparative linguistics; the Proto-Samoyed vowel system

Summary/Abstract: In the second part of the article the full list of the Selkup roots is given. In the first part of the article it was possible to establish the accent markings for these roots: plus marking (word accent is fixed on a root) or minus marking (word accent can move to the certain suffixes); these roots have their etymological analogues in the Nenets language. It turned out, that in the majority of cases if the Selkup root has a plus marking, a vowel of the first syllable in Tundra Nenets is long and if the Selkup root has a minus marking, a vowel of the first syllable in Tundra Nenets is neutral. Therefore the prosodic features of the roots can be reconstructed on the Proto-Samoyed level. The article also deals with the reflexes of the Proto-Uralic vowels in the Proto-Samoyed language, their dependence from the prosodic features of the roots (which were kept in Selkup and Nenets) is shown.

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 02 (7)
  • Page Range: 059-081
  • Page Count: 23
  • Language: Russian