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Proceedings of ISP RAS, 2023 Volume 35, Issue 6, Pages 311–330 (Mi tisp849)

Present tense of (–)char in the young written Shor language

A. V. Esipova

Institute of Linguistics

Abstract: The article analyzed the glossed corpus and concordance of the books “Sacred History ...” and Indication of the “Way to the Kingdom of Heaven ...”, which are publicly available on the LingvoDoc platform located at lingvodoc.ispras.ru. The books are samples of a weakly normalized young–written Shor language - a written version of the Kondom (Shor) dialect. The corpus revealed cases of differences in the language of the first books from the modern language that had not been previously described: a multivariate form of the present tense, combining analytical (kölep char-\"í ‘bestows'), hyphenated, transitional to synthetic (pildir–char-\"í ‘means’), and synthetic (aitchar or aitchar-\"í ‘says’) verbal constructions with the same indicator (–)char(\"í); elimination of the third person singular affix -\"í in synthetic forms of the present tense on (–)char(\"í); the processes of synthesizing this time form with an unstable spelling. Our task was to analyze the regularity of these phenomena, as well as the introduction into scientific circulation of materials of the little-studied young-written Shor language, which is now in danger of extinction, as well as the replenishment of the automatic Parser of the Shor language with the missing affixes of multivariate verb forms. It was found that there is a single form of present, with the affix –char, as a more complete form of the present tense affix -cha, formed from the verb chat– ‘to lie’; in analytical constructions, word forms with affix –\"í predominate (83.3%), word forms without affix make up only 1.7%, in synthetic forms, the number of word forms without affix is already 45.4%. The rule of falling off -(I)p in the bases ending in a consonant has not yet been normalized and works sporadically; the spelling of the fused-separately multivariate form of the present tense on (–)char has not been normalized either.

Keywords: Turkic languages, young written Shor language, first books, parser, present tense

DOI: 10.15514/ISPRAS-2023-35(6)-20



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