18.1296, Qs: Russian Suffixes [...]

[Frank Y Gladney]

Zaliznjak's _Grammaticheskii slovar' russkogo iazyka_ lists around 870 nouns ending in _-shchik_, but the _Inversionnyi indeks k Slovariu russkikh narodnykh govorov_ compiled by F. P. Sorokoletov and R. V. Odekov (SPb. University Press, 2000) has 1361.

Frank Y. Gladney

---- Original message ----
>Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 12:44:48 +0800
>From: "Loren A. Billings" <billings at NCNU.EDU.TW>  
>Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] 18.1296, Qs: Russian Suffixes [...]  
>To: SEELANGS at BAMA.UA.EDU
>
>Katharina (CC: SEELangs and SlavicLing lists),
>
>I post copies of this message to two Slavic lists that might bring forth
>additional suggestions. I would recommend that you look at any of a number
>of backwards dictionaries of Russian. The best is _Grammaticheskii slovar'
>russkogo iazyka_ by Zalizniak. There's another, the title of which begins
>with _Obratnyi slovar'_ (if memory serves). All these retrograde
>dictionaries list words alphabetically but by the last letter of the word.
>Thus, you'd get all words ending in <nshchik> and <nnik> grouped together;
>from there, you can look for patterns in other dictionaries that list their
>meanings. If you don't have access to either one, write me back and I'll
>type in the other words and complete references. --Loren
>
>On 5/1/07 1:17 AM, <linguist at LINGUISTLIST.ORG> wrote:
>
>> From: Katharina Gernet < gernet at eth.mpg.de >
>> Subject: Russian Suffixal Morphemes -shchiki/-niki
>>  
>> 
>> Dear list members,
>> 
>> I am a cultural anthropologist working with the Evens in Central Kamchatka,
>> Russian Far East. An issue that is discussed by anthropologists not only in
>> respect with the Evens from Kamchatka but with a number of other Siberian
>> indigenous groups is the phenomenon of so-called ''neotraditionalism'',
>> i.e. - to put it simple - the ''return'' from a life in the village to
>> ''traditional'' forms of subsistence as fishermen, hunters, reindeer
>> herders etc. in the taiga and tundra for various reasons.
>> 
>> I have heard local Evens in Kamchatka speaking of themselves in Russian as
>> ''traditsionniki'' as well as ''traditsionshchiki''. I wonder what might be
>> the differing semantic connotations of the suffixes -shchiki/-niki. From
>> the contextual situation I drew the conclusion that while
>> ''traditsionniki'' seems to be a more neutral term, ''traditsionshchiki''
>> might have some expressive connotation of irony in it or something of a
>> distanced view on the issue at hand (indigenous people citing academic
>> writers about ''neotraditionalism'' with a certain smile or critical
>> attitude).
>> 
>> My question to you is: Can anyone of you give me a hint where to find
>> information about the possible semantic connotations of the Russian
>> suffixal morphem -shchiki in contrast to -niki? I would be grateful for any
>> suggestions.
>> 
>> Thank you very much in advance for your help.
>> 
>> With kind regards,
>> 
>> Katharina Gernet
>> Max-Planck-Institut for Social Anthropology
>> Halle/Saale, Germany
>> 
>> Linguistic Field(s): Semantics
>
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