Existence verbs in the Yakut language as evidence of linguistic contacts

North-Eastern Federal University, 677013, Kulakovsky st., apt. 42, Yakutsk, Russia
Institute for Humanitarian Research and Problems of Indigenous Peoples of the North, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 677027, Petrovsky st., apt. 1, Yakutsk, Russia

^* Corresponding author: sivna@mail.ru

Abstract

The article considers the verbs of being in the Yakut language as evidence of language contacts. The purpose of this article is to present the verbs of being in the Yakut language in the light of a comparative study of the verbs of being in related Turkic languages, which is important in solving the problem of defining the historical linguistic community. The novelty is their consideration in the aspect of the problem of linguistic contacts. Their presentation in the Yakut language is relevant in accordance with the principles and methods of linguistic analysis, comparative-comparative study of verbs of related Turkic languages. An overview of the state of study of the verbal lexicon of being in linguistics is presented. It has been determined that the presentation of the characteristics of the lexical-semantic groups of verbs as one of the fundamental components of the functional-semantic field of being in the Yakut language is important in the further presentation of the initial theoretical provisions, determining the fundamental conceptual and methodological principles and substantiating the conceptual and terminological basis for studying the verbs of being in the Yakut language and Turkology in general. It is indicated that the study of the verbs of being in the aspect of the problem of linguistic contacts is important in identifying the corpus of existential verbal lexemes in the Yakut language, determining the lexical-semantic group of verbs of being that are part of the functional-semantic field of the same name, studying the text-forming function of verbs of being in the Turkic languages. It was revealed that such studies are important in establishing a common Pra-Türkic language at the level of the system of lexicalsemantic groups of existential verbs, as well as general and specific in the functioning of existential verbs in the Yakut language and the Turkic languages of Southern Siberia.