ACADEMIC JOURNAL
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ISSN 2542-1077 (Print) ISSN 1994-5973 (Online) |
Linguistics |
Pashkova T. V. | Petrozavodsk State University |
Rodionova A. P. | Karelian Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences |
Keywords: Karelian language Livvi dialect Ludic dialect word formation suffi xes morphology names of diseases |
Summary: The article examines one of the morphological aspects of the Karelian language, nominal suffi xal word
formation, with special focus on the Livvi and Ludic dialects. The research novelty is determined by the lack of studies
of this matter using the Karelian materials. The relevance of the study is seen in the fact that morphology is one of the
basic sections in the study of any language, and currently the Livvi dialect of the Karelian language is actively taught in
the educational institutions of the Republic of Karelia, while the Ludic dialect is at the initial stage of the revitalization
process. Since the aforementioned adverbs are closely related to each other, the conducted comparative study can lay the
foundation for further research of their grammatical structure, namely the morphological word formation in the Karelian
language. The research was carried out using comparative method and comparative historical analysis, for which
the authors selected the names of illnesses and diseases from the dictionaries of the Karelian language, samples of theKarelian oral language, and the Open Corpus of Veps and Karelian languages (VepKar), as well as the corresponding
lexical units collected from the speakers of the Livvi dialect. This choice of study material can explained by the fact
that the analysis of the names of illnesses and diseases makes it possible to trace the meaning and usage (attachment)
of the suffi xes -ndu/-ndy/-nd(e) and -hine, which the authors managed to achieve as the result of the study. Having
examined the suffi xes -ndu/-ndy/-nd(e) and -hine in the names of illnesses and diseases from the Livvi and Ludic dialects of the Karelian language, the authors concluded that they had identical meanings: the suffi xes -ndu/-ndy/-nd(e) denote the result of an action or an action process, while the suffi x -hine denotes the names of living and mythical
creatures or phenomena (in this particular case, mythological diseases). It is interesting to note that when a complex deverbal affi x -ndahine/-ndähine comprised of two suffi xes (-ndu/-ndy/-nd(e) + -hine), each with its own semantic specifi cs, is added, they acquire the same semantic meaning: one part of lexemes starts meaning the result of an action, while another – a mythological creature or, as in this case, a certain mythological disease |
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