Средства выражения альтернатива в хантыйском языке

Abstract

Introduction: the article is devoted to the identification of means of expression of an alternative in the Khanty language. An alternative is one of the varieties of multiplicative type of multiplicity of situations. The analysis of the semantic zone of alternativeness revealed lexical and morphological means through which this meaning is expressed. Objective: to identify means of expression of an alternative in the Khanty language and to identify the most expressive one. Research materials: the bilingual (Khanty-Russian) dictionaries of the Kazym, the Shuryshkar and the Eastern Khanty dialects, as well as examples from theoretical research on the Khanty language. Results and novelty of the research: the scientific novelty of the research is that for the first time a comprehensive study of the semantic zone of an alternative in the Khanty language was conducted. The analysis reveals lexical and morphological means by which this meaning is realized. The alternative subsystem contains three groups: lexical means with semantics of an alternative; word-forming means expressing the meaning of an alternative; paired adverbs expressing mutually directed action. In the components of the first group the meaning of an alternative is the least expressed and difficult determined; the second group contains verbs formed by the word500 forming suffix =i=/=ij= ~ = ĭ=/=ĭj= (they express the multiplicative type of multiplicity of situations including an alternative); the most clearly the meaning of an alternative is presented in the group with paired adverbs.