Syntactic Features of Spoken Bashkir: Analyzing Oral Monological Discourses
https://doi.org/10.22162/2619-0990-2025-79-3-759-771
Abstract
Introduction. The article deals with syntactic structures of Bashkir colloquial speech that remains a little-studied and urgent issue of modern Bashkir linguistics. Goals. The study attempts a comprehensive analysis into syntactic structures of spoken Bashkir. Materials and methods. The work is the first to focus on oral monological discourses collected during the author’s expeditions, samples of folk colloquial speech contained in the Machine Fund of the Bashkir Language and the textbook ‘Samples of Spoken Bashkir’. The examples for analysis have been selected through the continuous sampling method. The tools of discursive and contextual analyses have proved most instrumental for the study. Results. The paper reveals some characteristic features inherent to the syntax of spoken Bashkir. The linearity of oral speech ― arising from spontaneity, unpreparedness, emotionality, background knowledge, extra- and paralinguistic means of communication characteristic of colloquial speech ― generates certain types of phrases and syntactic constructions that differ from written language. The analyzed material shows that simple incomplete and non-conjunctive compound sentences, relative and parenthetical constructions prevail in colloquial speech. The article also examines how Russian syntax influences syntactic structures of colloquial Bashkir speech, which is most evident in direct speech patterns and code-switching in cases of Bashkir-Russian bilingualism.
Supporting agencies: The reported study was funded by Russian Science Foundation, project no. 23-28-01343 ‘Code-Switching in Bashkir-Russian Bilingualism: Insights into Dialectal Discourses’. Available at: https://rscf.ru/project/23-28-01343.
About the Author
Liliya A. Buskunbaeva
Institute of History, Language and Literature, Ufa Federal Research Centre of the RAS (71, Oktyabrya Ave., 450054 Ufa, Russian Federation)
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Cand. Sc. (Philology), Senior Research Associate
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Buskunbaeva L. Syntactic Features of Spoken Bashkir: Analyzing Oral Monological Discourses. Oriental Studies. 2025;18(3):759-771. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.22162/2619-0990-2025-79-3-759-771
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