M. P. Bezenova (Moscow, Izhevsk, Russia). Morphological features of the translation of the «God’s Law» (1912) into the Udmurt language

Maria P. Bezenova,
Candidate Sc. {Philology}, Research Fellow,
Udmurt Institute of History, Language and Literature, Udmurt Institute of History, Language and Literature, Ural Branch of Russian Academy of Siences (Izhevsk, Russia) Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences
(Moscow, Russia), mary_kaj@mail.ru

Introduction. The relevance of the study lies in the fact that the Udmurt written monuments are studied only partially at the moment. Today more than 400 names of pre-revolutionary Udmurt monuments are known, but most of them are still not described. An analysis of written monuments is necessary, because they provide important information for language reconstruction, and besides that, they help to determine the chronology of linguistic phenomena.
Materials and Methods. The description of morphological characteristics in the article is based on the previously identified graphic and phonetic features of the translation of «God’s law» in the Udmurt language. It involved the method of comparing the linguistic material of the work with the data of the literary language and modern Udmurt dialects.
Results and Discussion. As a result of the analysis of «God’s law» in the Udmurt language, we revealed some features in the design of morphological indicators of plural, possessiveness, some case and verb forms, as well as pronouns.
Conclusion. A comparison of the linguistic data of the “God’s Law” with the literary language and modern Udmurt dialects confirmed the hypothesis regarding the dialectic affiliation of the written source.

Keywords: Udmurt language; dialectology; written monuments; morphologic features.

Acknowledgments: This work was supported by the Russian Foundation of Basic Research grant No. 18-012-00119 “Creating an Interactive Atlas on the Uralic Languages” (supervisor Yu. V. Normanskaya).

For citation: Bezenova MP. Morphological features of the translation of the «God’s Law» (1912) into the Udmurt language. Finno-ugorskii mir = Finno-Ugric World. 2019; 11; 3: 246–254. (In Russian)