Syntagmatics of Adjectives Denoting a Geometrical Shape of an Object (evidence from the Kalmyk National Corpus)
Abstract
The article considers the syntagmatics of adjectives denoting geometrical shapes of objects with evidence from Kalmyk National Corpus; the adjectives are the ones that denote planar figures, physical bodies, properties and characteristics of the figures and bodies. The adjectives are largely loan words and have not been introduced into Kalmyk bilingual dictionaries which signifies that those are not that significant for language speakers in their daily communications. Most of the adjectives denoting geometrical shapes of objects combine with words that denote parts of the body. Some of the adjectives (khurts ‘sharp’, gho ‘straight’, mat’khr ‘curved mind’, dörvljn ‘square’) can be used to characterize attitudinal cognitive processes.
About the Authors
N. Mulaeva
Kalmyk Scientific Center of the RAS (Elista)
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Ph.D. in Philology (Candidate of Philological Sciences), Research Associate, Department of Linguistics
S. Bachaeva
Kalmyk Scientific Center of the RAS (Elista)
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Ph.D. in Philology (Candidate of Philological Sciences), Research Associate, Department of Linguistics
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Mulaeva N., Bachaeva S. Syntagmatics of Adjectives Denoting a Geometrical Shape of an Object (evidence from the Kalmyk National Corpus). Mongolian Studies. 2016;8(2):186-195. (In Russ.)
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