The Transformation of the personal paradigm of a verb in conditions of language contact (based on the Kabardian-Cherkessian speech of the diaspora in Turkey)
https://doi.org/10.31143/2542-212X-2026-2-216-225
EDN: OGCAFJ
Abstract
The purpose of the study is to identify the features of the use or omission of certain personal verb affixes in the modern Kabardian-Circassian speech of the diaspora in Turkey. In the Kabardian-Circassian language, the personal paradigm of the verb performs an important semantic function. The article examines the diversity of preverbs in the Kabardian-Circassian literary language and how they have been preserved in the speech of the diaspora. A linguistic analysis of field materials and recordings from the phonological archive revealed some peculiarities in the vowelization and non-vowelization of verbs in the speech of the respondents. The scientific novelty of the study lies in the fact that, for the first time, it used the spoken Kabardian-Cherkessian speech of the diaspora in comparison with the literary Kabardian-Cherkessian language to identify the preservation or absence of personal verb affixes that perform a semantic function in the language. The study found that the speakers of Kabardian-Circassian in Turkey have incomplete realization of the personal paradigm of the verb - individual affixes are regularly omitted, despite their grammatical obligation in the literary Kabardian-Circassian language. Thus, in conditions of long-term isolation and the influence of a foreign language environment, the speakers of the language in the diaspora tend to simplify the vocabulary, which entails a change in the system of personal endings of verbs.
About the Author
Marita M. Abazova
Institute of Humanitarian Research – branch of the Kabardino-Balkarian Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Candidate of Philology, Senior Researcher at the Kabardian-Circassian Language Sector of the Institute for Humanitarian Studies
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Abazova M.M. The Transformation of the personal paradigm of a verb in conditions of language contact (based on the Kabardian-Cherkessian speech of the diaspora in Turkey). Kavkazologiya. 2026;(2). (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.31143/2542-212X-2026-2-216-225. EDN: OGCAFJ
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