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THE CONCEPTUALIZATION OF THE ATMOSPHERIC PRECIPITATION IN THE SELKUP LANGUAGE IN COMPARISON WITH THE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE // Tomsk Journal of Linguistics and Anthropology. 2013. Issue 2 (2). P. 69-74

The article concerns the description of relevant characteristics in conceptualization of the atmospheric precipitation (rain, snow) in the Russian language and in the Selkup language. There are series of the lexemes representing atmospheric precipitation in Russian and in the Selkup dialects. These various lexemes represent different rain characteristics, the dynamic of the precipitation (the beginning/ the end, intensification or abatement). In the Selkup language, semi-suffixes are used to represent the precipitation components, while in the Russian language suffixes are used. Such suffixes are normally the means to code singular, on the other hand, they are used to denote the form and size of the object. The different precipitation stages are objectified in the Russian and in the Selkup languages with the help of the verbs of motion. The usage of the verbs of motion with inanimate objects is not common for Taz dialect of Selkup, while in the central and southern Selkup dialects the verbs of motion are combined freely with the lexical units denoting precipitation, which is also true for Russian. The precipitation intensity, the size of the drops, the dynamics, the duration and the amount of precipitation are the most relevant characteristics of the rain, snow and hail in linguistic conceptualization of Selkup and Russian speakers. The falling snow is opposed to the fallen snow in the Selkup language. The contemplative attitude to precipitation, seen as possibly influencing the emotional state, is more common for the Russian cultural frame.

Keywords: atmospheric precipitation, worldview, conceptual characteristic, Selkup, Russian

OBJECTIVIZATION OF RIVER IN THE LINGUISTIC WORLD-VIEW OF THE SELKUP ETHNOS // Tomsk Journal of Linguistics and Anthropology. 2014. Issue 2 (4). P. 29-33

The article deals with the research of a secular and sacral role of river in the linguistic world-view of the Selkup ethnos. The article studies the names of river in the Selkup language dialects and semantic types of hydronyms; analyses space orientation connected with river; describes a mythopoetic image of river in the language and folk tradition of the Selkups. The Selkup language dialects have a large number of water bodies’ names, which contain information on their form, size and location. The structure of hydronyms has the information on form, landscape and size of water bodies, availability of fish, birds and wild animals and connection with religious beliefs. The Selkup language contains adverbs characterizing space orientation regarding the course of a river: up and down (the stream), and adverbs characterizing the direction of movement in water to the coast and direction of movement on the coast to the water. River is the most important spatial reference for the Selkups and one of the focal points in the space. In the Selkup mythology river plays a role of an “axis” of the universe and world-view, which penetrates the upper, middle and lower worlds. Ethnographic and linguistic data prove that the Selkups perceived river as a living being. The role of river is manifest most representatively in the lexical unit qwej ‘river’, which is used to denote any river and completely coincides in form with the word ‘breath’. River is a source of life, spatial reference, universe model and a live being for the Selkup people.

Keywords: Selkup language, universe model, linguistic world-view, river, hydronym, space orientation

THE EXPRESSION OF POSSESSION IN THE DIALECTS OF SELKUP // Tomsk Journal of Linguistics and Anthropology. 2015. Issue 4 (10). P. 51-54

The paper presents a brief overview of the semasiological and onomasiological approaches to the study of possession in Russian and Western linguistic tradition. The paper discusses morphological, syntactic and morphosyntactic ways of expressing possession in the dialects of Selkup and covers various semantic types of possessive constructions. The Selkup dialects mark the distinction between alienable and inalienable possession.

Keywords: possession, Selkup, possessive constructions, possessive suffixes, alienable/inalienable possession

THE MAIN WAYS OF PREDICATIVE POSSESSION EXPRESSION IN THE SELKUP DIALECTS // Tomsk Journal of Linguistics and Anthropology. 2016. Issue 4 (14). P. 43-49

Various theoretical approaches to possessiveness in general and predicative possessiveness in particular are considered, differences of attributive and predicative possessiveness at the semantic level are described. The short review of use / non-use of the verbs of life and possession in the possessive constructions of the Ural languages relating to the Esse-languages is provided: transitive verbs of Indo-European type can be used for verbal expression of possessiveness in Ob-Ugrian, Nganasan and a number of southern dialects of the Lappish language. The main predicative possessive constructions of the Selkup language the parts of which are the verbs ēqo ‘to have, possess’ and the verb with the opposite meaning čaηkįqo are analyzed. The most frequent predicative possessive constructions in the Selkup language are constructions with a noun or a pronoun having the marker -nan and the verb ēqo or čaŋkįqo.

Keywords: possession, Selkup, predicative possessive constructions

PROTOTYPICAL AND NON-PROTOTYPICAL FUNCTIONS OF THE POSSESSIVE MARKERS IN THE SELKUP LANGUAGE // Tomsk Journal of Linguistics and Anthropology. 2017. Issue 4 (18). P. 56-63

The paper overviews the various approaches to the definition of the term possession, semantic dissimilarity of the category of possession, detached and attached possession, the main ways to express the category of possession in the Selkup language. In dialects of the Selkup language the possessive relations can be expressed by morphological, morphological-syntactic and syntactic ways. The morphological way to express the possessive relations consists in attaching of the personal-possessive suffixes to nouns or other parts of speech. The predicative possessive constructions of the Selkup language can be divided into five groups, the most frequent of which are the constructions with a noun or a pronoun having a marker -nan and the verb ēqo 'to have, possess' or čaŋkįqo ‘not to have, not to possess’. The possessive markers of the Selkup language express not only possession, but also definiteness; they also perform the indicating, intensifying and distinguishing functions.

Keywords: attributive possession, predicative possession, the Selkup language, deictic functions of the possessive markers

Modern Scientific Research of the Scientific School of Linguistics Founded by A. P. Dulzon: Results and Prospects // Tomsk Journal of Linguistics and Anthropology. 2023. Issue 4 (42). P. 149-158

The article examines the directions of scientific research of the Tomsk Linguistic School founded by A. P. Dulzon from 2017 to 2023, describes the results of scientific, supervisory, and pedagogical activities aimed at studying the languages of the autochthonous ethnic minorities of Siberia, and outlines the prospects for further scientific research. During this period, three dissertations were written and defended for the degree of candidate of philological sciences, three annotated folklore and everyday prose texts in the languages of the Ob Yenisei region were published, including material on the Selkup, Ket, Chulym-Turkic, Teleut, Khanty and ChulymTurkic languages, four monographs on the Selkup and Chulym-Turkic languages and four research projects were carried out. At present, the Khanty, Selkup, Chulym-Turkic, Ket, and Teleut languages are being researched with the help of modern achievements in linguistics, folklore, and other related sciences.

Keywords: linguistic school by A.P. Dulzon, studies of endangered languages, indigenous ethnic groups, the Selkup language, the Khanty language, the Ket language, the Chulym-Turkic language, the Teleut language