Structure of Forest Enets - ALINV707B

• Title: Structure of Forest Enets
• Guaranteed by: Institute of Linguistics (21-ULING)
• Faculty: Faculty of Arts
• Actual: from 2017
• Semester: summer
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 3
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:26/0, C [HS]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: not taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
• Guarantor: Florian Siegl, Ph.D.; Mgr. Jan Křivan, Ph.D.
• Class: Exchange - 09.7 Less Widely Taught Languages

Annotation

The Structure of Forest Enets
Florian Siegl
UiT - Norges arktiske universitet

Forest Enets is a moribund Northern Samoyedic language (Samoyedic, Uralic) remembered and spoken by
around 30 individuals within the boundaries of the Taimyr municipal district (Krasnojarskij kraj).
Although Forest Enets is a typical head-final agglutinative language, its morphology is highly fusional which has
altered the shape of this language more than those of other Samoyedic languages. As syntax is interacting with
morphosyntax to a large degree, the course offers a predominantly semasiological synchronic overview of
grammar and will highlight the most central morphosyntactic patterns of this language. Although the course is
organized as a structural-functional introduction to the grammar of Forest Enets, occasional comparisons with
other Finno-Ugric language such as languages from the Finnic and Ugric branch of Uralic should make this
introduction interesting for students of Finno-Ugric languages as well as students of Altaic languages.
The materials derive from the lecturer's fieldwork materials gathered on the Taimyr Peninsula (2006-2007, 2008,
2011) and consultant work elsewhere (2007 [Tartu], 2013 [Helsinki]) equaling about 13 months of work among
speakers of Forest Enets.

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Course completion requirements

a) Attendance of 80% of lectures

b) Basic analysis of a prepared short Forest Enets text with English translation to be submitted after the lectures by e-mail. Grading will be binary “yes (passed)” - “no (not passed)”

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Literature

Siegl, Florian 2013. Materials on Forest Enets, an Indigenous Language of Northern Siberia. MSFOu 267. Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura. (http://www.sgr.fi/sust/sust267/sust267.pdf)

Sorokina, I. P. & Bolina, D. S. 2001. Slovar' enecko-russkij i russko-eneckij. Sankt-Peterburg: Prosveščenie.

• --- 2005. Eneckie teksty. Institut lingvističeskix issledovanij. Rossijskaja Akademia Nauk. Sankt-Peterburg: Nauka.

• --- 2009. Eneckij slovar' s kratkim grammatičeskim očerkom. Institut lingvističeskix issledovanij. Rossijskaja Akademia Nauk. Sankt-Peterburg: Nauka.

Sorokina, Irina 2010. Eneckij jazyk. Sankt-Peterburg: Nauka.

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Syllabus

1. The Forest Enetses: history, ethnohistory, research history, sociolinguistic status-quo

2. Phonology, morphonology, parts of speech

3. Nominal categories and their morphosyntax

4. Verbal categories and their morphosyntax

5. Syntactic preliminaries

6. Analysis of two spontaneous narratives

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