KUMYK-ENGLISH

A dissertation - Pronouns in Kumyk discourse: a cognitive perspective

By Humnick L.A.

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kumyk-english
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2 MB (1699248 bytes)
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Topic
Linguistics Foreign
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2017-08-07 07:01:42
Языки и языкознание;Кумыкский язык

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University of Minnesota, March 2009. - 303 p.This dissertation investigates pronominal forms of referring expressions in Kumyk, a Turkic language spoken primarily in the Dagestan region of Russia. The Kumyk language has six third person pronominals, including null arguments, demonstratives, and reflexives. Morphologically, each of these forms is unmarked for gender or animacy. This work provides an explanatory account of the distribution and interpretation of different pronominal forms in Kumyk primarily in terms of what these forms communicate about the status of their referents in the minds of the speech participants, specifically claiming that different pronominal forms signal differences in the cognitive status of their referents.

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