Open issues concerning participles

Present Participle

• Suffix:

  -нэ

  мир суснэ хум ‘Mir-Susne-Khum’ (the World Surveyor Man, one of the most important Mansi gods)

  • in MWEs and compounds -э- is often deleted

  тэ̄нут ‘food’ (eating thing) маснут ‘cloth’ (dressing thing) пусмалтан кол ‘hospital’ (healing house) ня̄врамыт ханищтан нэ̄ ‘teacher’ (children-teaching woman)

  -нэ̄+Vx paradigm

• Meaning:
  • in compounds: nomen actionis, nomen agentis, nomen patientis
  • with personal suffixes: nomen actionis
• Functions:
  • subject
  • object
  • attribute
  • adverbial
  • predicate: Rombandeeva, and based on her, all the works edited in Russia, as well as T. Riese regard the present participle+Px paradigm as the present tense conjugation of the so-called narrative mood
• Personal suffixes:

Ам тув яласанэм порат тав ётэ хо̄нтхатыгласум. I there go-prs.prtc-Sg1 time-loc he together-PxSg3 meet-prt-Sg1 During the time I was there I met him.

Ам электростанцият рӯпитэ̄гум, тот рӯпитанэ̄м аквхуплов та̄лыг ты е̄мтыс/ I electric.station-loc work-Sg1 there work-prs.prtc-Sg1 11 year-trsl behold become-prt-Sg3 I am working at an electric station, I have already been working there for 11 years.

Ма̄н ща̄нь ла̄тӈув ва̄нэ̄в ма̄гыс ма̄ньщииг о̄лэ̄в. we.Pl mother langue.PxPl1 know-prs.prtc because Mansi-trs be-Pl1 We are Mansi for knowing our mother tongue.

• Narrative:

Past participle

Gerund

Privative

• Suffix: -та̄л

• Meaning:

  • deverbal adjective

хунь ма̄хум пилта̄лыг, та̄нкина̄ныл са̄литатта̄л хо̄нлысыт how people fear-privative-trsl they.refl-acc feel.sorry-trsl fight-prt-Pl3 ‘how the people were fighting undauntly and not sparing themselves’

ма̄н са̄ккон щирыл та̄н палтаныл щалтуӈкве ат ве̄рме̄в, уральтта̄л та хӯльтэ̄гыт we.Pl law accorging.to they side-Loc-PxPl3 step no can-Pl3, protect-privative behold remain-Pl3 ‘according to the law we cannot take their side, thus they remain unprotected’

• Functions
  • attribute

Irregular verbs

It is complicated to compile the complete paradigm for the irregular verbs

• Given forms: active, indicative, present, subjective Sg3 active, indicative, present, objective, single object Sg3 active, indivative, past, subjective Sg3 active, indicative, past, objective, single object Sg3 active, conditional, subjective Sg3 active, conditional, objective, single object Sg3 active, imperative, subjective Sg2 active, imperative, objective single object Sg2 passive, indicative, present Sg3 passive, indicative, past Sg3 passive, conditional Sg3 passive, imperative Sg2 infinitive present participle past participle gerund (Kálmán 1976: 63-63) passive, indicative, present paradigm of ва̄ӈкве (Ромбандеева 2017: 297) passive, indicative, past paradigm of ва̄ӈкве (Ромбандеева 2017: 294) passive, conditional paradigm of ва̄ӈкве (Ромбандеева 2017: 297)

Narraitve

At Rombandeeva: auditive, evidential (Rombandeeva 2017: 161-170) At Riese: narrative

Mirative

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