DOI: 10.7256/2454-0749.2020.3.29609

Abstract: This article is dedicated to the currently relevant within Yakut linguistics problem of language and speech normalization of functional styles. An attempt is made to reveal the linguistics peculiarities of the colloquial style of Yakut language through the prism of verbal predicate as one of the key components in a sentence. As a result of semantic-stylistic and statistics-linguistics analysis of verbal predicate in the colloquial style, the author identifies its qualitative and quantitative characteristics. Special attention is turned to the intercalation changes of verbal predicates in colloquial style that take place under the influence of Russian language. The article determines frequency of the use of forms of verbal predicates in literary style, which allowed to objectively assess indicators that were revealed by means of application of the semantic-stylistic method. Functionality of verbal predicates in colloquial style is defined by their lexical-semantic meanings, structural-semantic parameters and means of expression, as well as utilization and prevalence of certain verbal predicates in colloquial style is substantiated by extralinguistic specificities of this speech style. At the initial stages of normalization process of functional styles of Yakut language, it is important to give an objective assessment to the ongoing within colloquial style intercalation changes under the influence of Russian language by determining its negative and potentially positive aspects.

DOI: 10.25136/2409-8698.2019.6.29543

Abstract: This article conducts the semantic-stylistic and stylistic-statistical analysis of verbal predicates functioning in the literary speech of Yakut language.  The authors examine the rich language of fiction literature as one of the varieties of functional style, which suggest comparative study of its language with the language of other styles of speech. The results of analysis are reflected in the lexical-semantic and grammatical-semantic characteristics of verbal predicates as one of the principal parts of the sentence defining symmetry of the grammatical modes specific for literary style. The author also determines quantitative indicators of verbal predicates of literary style closely interlinked with their qualitative characteristics. The article detects frequency of using the forms of verbal predicates in literary style, which allows objectively assessing the indicators identified through the semantic-stylistic method. Comparative method contributes to determination of stylistic distinctness of literary style in relation to other styles. Functionality of verbal predicate in the literary style depends on grammatical semantics of certain verbal forms, as well as lexical-semantic nature of separate verbal predicates. Absolute dominance in quantitative terms of analytical forms of compound predicate expressed in the form of past tense and mode is established. The stylistic power of analytical forms of compound predicate consists in their semantic nature, which suggests the diversity of syntactic means values of the Yakut language.

DOI: 10.25136/2409-8698.2019.5.29933

Abstract: This article explores the main linguistic features of the official business texts throughout various periods of formation of the official business style of the Yakut language, development of dictionaries of terminology of official business style, including public policy and juridical terms. The author highlights the contribution of the professor of stylistics of Yakut language department and Russian-Yakut translator Petrovaya T.I. in development of official business style of the Yakut language, who developed the theoretical and practical issues on functional stylistics and internal national translation. This work employed the methods of descriptive analysis and comparative analysis. The scientific novelty of this work consists in the research of the linguistic features of the official business style texts of the Yakut language. The work outlines the great role of the Russian-Yakut translation in formation of the official business style of the Yakut language up to present day. Overview of the dictionaries of juridical and public policy terms reveals that there is a pressing need to compile more comprehensive Russian-Yakut dictionaries utilizing the internal term-forming capabilities of the Yakut language.