Ivannikov Institute for System Programming of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation
This paper analyzes an extensive volume of corpus and archival data, reexamining the functioning of the conjunctive mood in Selkup dialects. Specifically, the study formally analyzes its markers, examines its primary semantic features across different dialects, and delineates the isoglossic areas of marker distribution. The markers for the synthetic and analytical conjunctives form two intersecting areas: the synthetic marker -ne- appears in the southern, transitional, and central dialects, while the analytical marker ene is found generally in the northern dialects and partially in the southern Chaya and Ket areas. In the northern dialects, the analytical conjunctive appears only with verbs in the simple past tense, expressing hypothetical, unrealized, or desired actions. Conversely, in the southern, transitional, and central dialects, the synthetic conjunctive conveys real, hypothetical, and unreal actions, encoding desire and incentive. When unmarked by verb tense, it expresses indefinite temporal meanings and remains neutral regarding reality/irreality semantics. With additional temporal context, it conveys broader semantics, including irreality in the past and real possibility in the future. In the central Tym and Narym dialects, the synthetic conjunctive with narrative past tense verbs expresses hypothetical, unrealized, or desired meanings in the past. Furthermore, in the Belyi Yar idiom of the Ket dialect, the analytical conjunctive is used with simple past tense suffixes to express hypothetical, unrealized, or desired actions, and with present and future tense suffixes to indicate a possibility or wish projected onto the present or future.
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