Polysemy in the Kildin Saami Perfect: Toward a Formal Analysis

Student: Mariya Kosheleva

Educational Programme: Linguistic Theory and Language Description (Master)

Final Grade: 9

Year of Graduation: 2024

This study considers two ways to refer to the past in Kildin Saami (< Uralic, Kola Peninsula): the Preterite and the Present Perfect, focusing on the latter. My previous study (Kosheleva 2023) has shown that the Present Perfect covers to a certain extent all the meanings found on the path of grammaticalization from resultatives to both past perfectives and evidentials (Bybee et al. 1994). I will propose a formal analysis of this versatile behavior of the Present Perfect as well as an analysis of its competition with the Preterite. Data will be collected through elicitation and judgement tasks with Kildin Saami consultants.

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