FUNCTIONAL AND SEMANTIC CHARACTERISTIC OF THE PLACE NЄMKHUYAT IN THE KHANTY LANGUAGE

Abstract

The article discusses the functions and semantics of negative pronouns in the Khanty language. Special research is done on the study of negative pronouns on the material of western dialects. Researchers of the Khanty language have outlined the composition of the category of negative pronouns, named different inflectional possibilities of lexical units. For the first time, the analysis of negative pronouns of the Khanty language was carried out on the basis of the Kazym dialect. The article clarifies the meanings of the pronoun nєmkhuyat in the Kazym dialect. The inflectional paradigm of the substantivized pronoun nєmkhuyat ‘none’ by cases is described. The pronoun does not change in numbers, does not attach personal possessive affixes. The pronoun nєmkhuyat ‘nobody’s’ in a preposition to a name or as part of a noun phrase is used in the attributive function. The material of the research includes sentences with negative pronouns of the Kazym dialect, extracted from Khanty texts, dictionaries and obtained from informants. The work used a descriptive method, continuous sampling method, analysis.