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The article presents an overview of code-switching and other cases of the juxtaposition of two languages and borrowings from Russian in Kalmyk based on the empirical data. Code-switching is a very common phenomenon in communication among Kalmyks. On a functional level, it is often used as a communicative strategy and, on the structural level, texts provide evidence of two main patterns of nonce borrowings adaptation. The first one is the light verb strategy with auxiliary ke- ‘do’ and an infinitive of the Russian verb, the second accommodation strategy for a noun phrase is a pattern with verb gi- ‘say’ which exhibits features of grammaticalization. It is demonstrated in the article that the sources of a marker of borrowing nouns may be both code-switching in the direct and reported speech with a verb of saying and a construction with a form of habitual participle gidǝg.
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The author deals with the first alphabet books in the Mari language (the Meadow Mari dialect), which were published bythe Brotherhood of St. Gury in Kazan (1870 and 1873). The specific features of denoting of the Mari vowels in these writtenmonuments and the dialectal and historical features of the Meadow Mari vowel system are studied in the article.
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The purpose of the article is describing the system of definitions representing the archseme and differential semes ofthe phytonyms, included in the explanatory dictionary of the language of the Kalmyk heroic epic “Dzhangar”, and testing thedictionary entries with the words of this thematic group.
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In the article the usage of the Turkish verbs of movement (git-, gel-, geç-) in deictic, non-deictic and secondary meaningsis analysed. The author also considers the general components of movement such as ‘figure’, ‘ground’ and ‘path’ andresearches the specific usage principles of these verbs and their compatibility with different types of objects and differentcase forms.
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The article devoted to the 190th anniversary of the first Buryat scholar Dorzhi Banzarov describes his life and his academicactivity. The article includes various examples and facts which underline the significance of the famous scholar andhis work in the Russian oriental studies of the early 19th century and in the cultural and academic life of modern Buryatia.
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The article provides the brief overviews of the life and academic activity of the famous Bashkir linguists — Akhtyam A.Mansurov and Kasim Z. Akhmerov. In the article these scholars’ role as the founders of the Bashkir linguistics is described.
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The new field and archive data on three groups of the Mansi dialects (Northern, Western and Eastern) are analysed inthe article. On the basis of comparing these data and analysis them in the phonetic program the Proto-Mansi vowel systemis reconstructed and it differs from the previous ones.
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The Tungusic languages have the so called “locative case” -la. It is usually polysemous; the set of its spatial meanings is quite intriguing and varies across the languages; it also tends to have no specialized function: in all its uses it competes with one of the main spatial cases to a greater or a lesser extent. La-case can mark a) LOCATION (essive), b) GOAL (lative), c) PATH (prolative). The paper deals with the puzzle of the meanings of the la-case and proposes the possible scenario of their diachronic development. This scenario suggests LOCATION+GOAL as an initial cluster of meanings and PATH as the last stage of the semantic development of -la. This stage can be observed in Nanai, where the central function of -la is prolative whereas the other two are also attested. Thus, the data of Nanai which are considered in detail in the paper let us trace and explain the diachronic semantic shifts between the spatial meanings of the la-case on a micro level andto make some clarifications on the category of Prolative in a cross-linguistic perspective. The crucial notion for the polysemy of the la-case seems to be the CONTACT with the Trajector.
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The article is devoted to the affinity of the Turkic and Mongoliс languages in vocabulary, the author deals with the wordsdenoting phenomena of inanimate nature. The author analyses the landscape vocabulary, the names of different types ofsoil, water objects, atmospheric phenomena, the celestial spheres etc. The data of the Khalkha Mongolian and Old WrittenMongolian languages are studied in the first place, the data of Buryat and Kalmyk are used when they exist in these languages.The data of the Old Turkic language were compared with the Mongolic ones, and presence of similar words saysabout the Turko-Mongolic lexical affinity. In most cases analysis of the common words allows to establish their Turkic origin.The large number of common words, which origin is identifed as Turkic, indicates numerous ancient contacts between theTurkic and Mongolic languages, which led to the hybridisation of the Mongolic lexicon.
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The article is devoted to the research of a genetic relationship of the Altaic languages, which is alternative to the hypothesisof a contact origin of the similarities between the groups of languages of the Altaic family (the Turkic, Mongolic andTungusic languages). The author critically examines the methods of opponents’ studies, shows the impossibility of solvingthe question of relationship of language groups outside the Altaic family, failure of some points of view on the history of theAltaic languages and V. Kotvich’s false interpretation on the Altaic problem. The author shows that only the recognition of the genetic relationship of the Altaic languages allows to distinguish the original Altaic vocabulary and the multidirectionalborrowings.
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