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Name: The lexicon of qualities and its polysemy in an online dialect atlas of Yamal: the concept of ‘slippery’

Authors: Kashkin Egor Vladimirovich, Koshkareva Natalya Borisovna, Burkova Svetlana Igorevna, Kazakevich Olga Anatolyevna, Kuznetsova Ariadna Ivanovna, Koryakov Yuriy Borisovich

Federal State Budgetary Scientific Institution V.V. Vinogradov Russian Language Institute of RAS, Moscow, Russian Federation; Institute of Philology of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation; Novosibirsk St

In the section Linguistics

Abstract: The article raises some issues of creating dialect maps which could illustrate lexical polysemy in the Uralic languages of Yamal (Komi-Zyrjan, Nenets, Selqup, Khanty). We discuss four maps dealing with the concept of ‘slippery’. They show (1) the lexemes describing slippery surfaces; (2) the patterns of categorizing the situation in which an object is slipping out of sb’s hands; (3) the presence of a dominant lexeme ‘slippery’; (4) the presence of a special lexeme ‘slippery’ (about an icy bearing surface). The parameters typologically relevant for the domain of ‘slippery’ are: (1) the type of a contact with a surface (bearing surface vs. the surface of an object slipping out of hands); (2) the type of a surface which is slipping on another surface; (3) the presence of lexemes drawing some fine-grained distinctions between slippery surfaces.

Keywords: he khanty language, the nenets language, the komi-zyrjan language, the selkup language, dialectological dictionary, multimedia dictionary, dialectological maps

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