Вариации в использовании модальных частиц в литературном удмуртском языке и в бесермянском диалекте
Variations in the use of modal particles in standard Udmurt and Beserman Udmurt

Summary/Abstract: In the article, I analyze the quantitative difference in the use of Udmurt modal particles in three corpora — the corpus of Udmurt press, the corpus of Udmurt blogs and the spoken corpus of the Beserman dialect of the Udmurt language. The aim is to test if the corpus analysis confirms the claims about more frequent use of modal particles in spoken language and about the peculiarity of the syntactic position of particles in the analytical negative verbal construction. The analysis shows that the particle ik ‘the same, after allʼ demonstrates a pattern different from the other three most frequent particles (nʼi ‘alreadyʼ, na ‘yetʼ, uk ‘you knowʼ) in its distribution across monologic texts characterized by different modes of communication (written, computermediated, spoken). It also shows a specific pattern of usage within the analytical negative verbal construction.

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