The Inchoative in Kildin-Sami Sentences, Contrasted with their Russian Translations

Abstract

There are two major dialects of Kola-Sami (Kola-Lapp), the dialects of Kildin and Ter. The "inchoative" is a common form of the verb in both of them, although not equally common. In the present paper, the author studies the question only in the Kildin dialect. No-one has ever given a detailed description of this phenomenon in linguistic literature. The suffix of the inchoative is -kuadd, -skuadd, etc., in the Kildin dialect. Its basic meaning is this: it can express beginning action. But it can be used in many other situations. The question will be studied: when is it the same as the Russian perfective and when is it different from it?