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Fedorenkova V.S. [The sistem of demonstrative pronouns in the Even language] World of Science. Series: Sociology, Philology, Cultural Studies, 2019, Vol. 10, No. 2. Available at: https://sfk-mn.ru/PDF/08FLSK219.pdf (in Russian).

The sistem of demonstrative pronouns in the Even language

Fedorenkova Valeriya Stepanovna
The Herzen state pedagogical university of Russia, Saint Petersburg, Russia
E-mail: valeria.141169@mail.ru

Abstract. The article is a part of the dissertation research of the pronominal system of the Even language. The article analyzes the functional and semantic features of the Еven demonstrative pronouns, that related to the most frequently used words in speech, since the functions performed by demonstrators are extremely important to ensure the grammatical and semantic coherence of the text, to replace the specific name of the object and the index designation of the object. The author considers the lexical and grammatical specificity of the Even demonstrative pronouns, which stand out from all semantic categories of pronouns by their ability to morphological transposition: their morphological correlation is determined only in the context, the Even demonstrative pronouns can perform substantive, adjectival and adverbial functions in a sentence. System of the Even demonstrative pronouns includes substantive subject-index, attributive-index pronouns, identification-index pronouns and the adverbial demonstrative pronouns. Substantive demonstratives are used to indicate objects, to distinguish objects and persons from a number of homogeneous and replacement of a specific name of the object. The substantive demonstrative pronouns include the pronouns är ‘this’, ärek ‘this’, indicating an object located near the speaker; tar ‘that’, tarak ‘that’, tavor/tavur/tabor* ‘that’, indicating an object that is in the distance or already mentioned earlier; demonstrative pronouns formed by possessive suffixes, and personal possessive affixes indicate what kind of person is the holder. To attribute demonstrative substituting the adjectives, the pronouns are formed from demonstrative pronouns er ‘this’, tar ‘that’ by means of the affixes -rochin/-rochon*, -gachin/-gächin/-gichin, -din. Identifying pronouns, formed possessive suffix -ŋi, indicate to the person who is determined by the basis of pronouns: äre ‘belonging to it’, äralŋii ‘belonging to it’, tarŋi ‘belonging to that’, taralŋi ‘owned by the’, interrogative pronoun to them irelŋi? ‘which ones?’. Demonstratives with adverbial meaning are forms of indirect locative cases of pronouns with the basics of er and tar, which are adverbialized, acquire substantive meaning and are not thought as forms of indirect cases of demonstrative pronouns er, tar: edu ‘here’, ‘here’, äle ‘here’, tadu ‘there’, tala ‘there’, etc.

Keywords: Еven language; morphology; pronominal system; semantic categories of pronouns; the system of the Еven demonstrative pronouns; demonstrative pronouns; pronouns

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