Article

Name: The category of possession in the Kosh-Agach and the Ulagan subdialects of the Telengit dialect of the Altai language

Authors: Bidinova Aina Kraevna

Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation

In the section Linguistics

Abstract: The affixes of the category of possession in the Kosh-Agach and Ulagan subdialects of the Telengit dialect in comparison with the affixes of this category of the Ongudai subdialect of the Altai-Kizhi dialect and the Altai literary language display specific features which, on the one hand, unite these subdialects, opposing them to the literary language, and, on the other hand, demonstrate the territorial features of the subdialects of the Kosh-Agach and Ulagan districts. A bright feature uniting the subdialects of the Telengit dialect and the Ongudai district subdialect of the Altai-Kizhi dialect, is the presence of affixes with labialized vowels in all persons and of the contracted forms of possessive affixes. Besides, the speakers of the Ongudai district subdialect use the full forms of the possessive affixes of the 1st and 2nd persons plural that are absent in the subdialects of the Telengit dialect. A specific feature of the subdialects of the Telengit dialect is the presence of long vowels in their affixes.

Keywords: dialect, subdialect, category of possession

Bibliography: