Syllabus
1. The Forest Enetses: history, ethnohistory, research history, sociolinguistic status-quo
2. Phonology, morphonology, parts of speech
3. Nominal categories and their morphosyntax
4. Verbal categories and their morphosyntax
5. Syntactic preliminaries
6. Analysis of two spontaneous narratives
Annotation
The Structure of Forest Enets
Florian Siegl
UiT - Norges arktiske universitet
Forest Enets is a moribund Northern Samoyedic language (Samoyedic, Uralic) remembered and spoken by around 30 individuals within the boundaries of the Taimyr municipal district (Krasnojarskij kraj).
Although Forest Enets is a typical head-final agglutinative language, its morphology is highly fusional which has altered the shape of this language more than those of other Samoyedic languages. As syntax is interacting with morphosyntax to a large degree, the course offers a predominantly semasiological synchronic overview of grammar and will highlight the most central morphosyntactic patterns of this language. Although the course is organized as a structural-functional introduction to the grammar of Forest Enets, occasional comparisons with other Finno-Ugric language such as languages from the Finnic and Ugric branch of Uralic should make this introduction interesting for students of Finno-Ugric languages as well as students of Altaic languages.
The materials derive from the lecturer's fieldwork materials gathered on the Taimyr Peninsula (2006-2007, 2008, 2011) and consultant work elsewhere (2007 [Tartu], 2013 [Helsinki]) equaling about 13 months of work among speakers of Forest Enets.