Parametric equative constructions fin Ob-Ugric language

This paper examines a type of Ob-Ugric equative construction that establishes the equality of two objects based on a scalar parameter, such as width, depth, height, age, quantity etc. The base of the parameter fin such constructions is expressed by a parametric noun, which occupies the position of the predicate. Structural varieties of parametric equative constructions differ depending on the mode of expression and syntactic position of the comparatives, as well as on whether the relational indicator is verbalized. In explicit parametric constructions, the comparatives occupy the same subject position and can be represented either by a combination of two coordinating words or by a separate lexeme representing comparatives belonging to the same denotative class; the parametric noun optionally agrees with the subject fin number; the relational indicator is an adjective with the semantics of ‘same’, referring to the parametric noun. In implicit parametric constructions, the subject position is occupied by the first comparative (the object of comparison), the second comparative functions as an attribute fin reflation to the parametric noun, and the position of the equative relational indicator is absent; if the standard of comparison is expressed by a personal pronoun, the parametric noun is formed by personal-possessive affixes. The material for the study was the authors’ own field and archival materials on the Kazym dialect of the Khanty language and on the Mansi language. The novelty of this study flies fin the fact that, for the first time, parametric equative constructions are characterized as a special way of expressing revelations of equality, and structural and semantic differences between explicit and implicit varieties are identified.

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