Finite structures in Forest Enets subordination
Khanina Olesya, Shluinsky Andrey.
Khanina Olesya, Shluinsky Andrey. Finite structures in Forest Enets subordination. Москва, 2008.
Enets is a moribund Northern Samoyedic language traditionally spoken on
the right bank of the Lower Yenisei River (Taimyr Peninsula, Western
Siberia). Now the use of Enets is basically restricted to two villages of the area,
Potapovo in the south (Forest dialect) and Vorontsovo in the north (Tundra
dialect). Enets is no longer used on an everyday basis, however, about 30–50
people, all over 45 and all native or near-native speakers of Russian, retain
substantial production competence and rather full comprehension competence.
Yet, field reports (cf., e.g., Helimski, Ms) show that the Enets spoken by these
present-day speakers is structurally different in some respects from the
language of their parents and grandparents reported in earlier sources, such as
Castrеn (1854), Prokofjev (1937), Tereschenko (1966, 1977, 1993), Sorokina
(1975, 1981, 1985), Cheremisina et al. (1986), Sorokina & Bolina (2005),
Urman-chieva (2006).
Enets is a moribund Northern Samoyedic language traditionally spoken on
the right bank of the Lower Yenisei River (Taimyr Peninsula, Western
Siberia). Now the use of Enets is basically restricted to two villages of the area,
Potapovo in the south (Forest dialect) and Vorontsovo in the north (Tundra
dialect). Enets is no longer used on an everyday basis, however, about 30–50
people, all over 45 and all native or near-native speakers of Russian, retain
substantial production competence and rather full comprehension competence.
Yet, field reports (cf., e.g., Helimski, Ms) show that the Enets spoken by these
present-day speakers is structurally different in some respects from the
language of their parents and grandparents reported in earlier sources, such as
Castrеn (1854), Prokofjev (1937), Tereschenko (1966, 1977, 1993), Sorokina
(1975, 1981, 1985), Cheremisina et al. (1986), Sorokina & Bolina (2005),
Urman-chieva (2006).