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In:Language Contact in the Territory of the Former Soviet Union
Edited by Diana Forker and Lenore A. Grenoble
[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society 50] 2021
► pp. 217–258

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Quotative indexes in Permic

Between the original strategies and Russian

 | University of Tartu
Published online: 18 June 2021
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https://doi.org/10.1075/impact.50.08tep
Abstract
In this paper, I discuss the use of quotative indexes in new media texts of the Permic languages Komi and Udmurt. I focus on quotative strategies that emerge under the influence of Russian. Even though both Permic languages are found nowadays relatively equally under the influence of Russian, its impact is realized to different extents. In Udmurt, both matter and pattern replication can be observed (the quotative particles mol and deskatʹ, new quotative tipa, the complementizers čto and budto), while in Komi, only the pattern replication of the complementizer strategy is noticed. It leads to the conclusion that Komi speakers keep control over the separation of linguistic repertoire in the written form, while Udmurt speakers use already conventionalized markers from the contact language as new quotatives.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
    • 1.1The Permic languages
    • 1.2Quotative indexes and new quotatives
    • 1.3Methodology and data
    • 1.4The content of the paper
  • 2.Quotative indexes in Russian
    • 2.1Complementizer strategies in Russian: Speech verbs and complementizers čto and budto
    • 2.2Quotative particles mol and deskatʹ as markers of reported discourse in Russian
    • 2.3New quotative indexes in Russian
  • 3.Quotative indexes in Udmurt
    • 3.1The autochthonous quotative strategies in Udmurt
      • 3.1.1The autochthonous Udmurt quotative particles
      • 3.1.2The autochthonous complementizer strategy in Udmurt
    • 3.2Russian influence on the quotative strategies in Udmurt
      • 3.2.1The complementizers čto and budto in Udmurt
      • 3.2.2The quotative particles mol and deskatʹ in Udmurt
      • 3.2.3New quotative tipa in Udmurt
      • 3.2.4The ambiguous case: Deictic syče as part of the QI-clause
  • 4.Quotative indexes in Komi
    • 4.1The autochthonous quotative strategies in Komi
    • 4.2On some traces of matter and pattern replication in the complementizer strategy in Komi
  • 5.Summary
  • 6.Discussion
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • Abbreviations
  • Other symbols and fonts
  • References
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