Functions of the Predicative Suffix of Adjectives in Vah-Vasyugan Dialect of Khanty Language

Kuznetsov Pavel Mikhaylovich

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In Vah-Vasyugan dialect of the Khanty language there is the suffix -a7//-a7i, joining the stem of adjectives in the predicative function. The translations show, that this suffix also changes the intensity of quality, denoted by the adjective stem. Using an adjective as the predicate, the speaker puts some emotional coloring into it. It explains, why adjectives with -a7//-a7i suffix are translated sometimes as strong intensifiers, sometimes as weak intensifiers and sometimes as expressing the neutral intensity of the quality, denoted by the adjective stem.

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Issue: 4, 2007

Series of issue: Humanities (Philology)

Rubric: Indigenous Languages of Siberia

Pages: 84 — 86

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