ON THE POSTPOSITIVE CONDITIONAL-TEMPORAL CONJUNCTION DAK IN KAMAS


2020. № 4 (26), 76-89

 University of Hamburg / Institute of Linguistics of RAS

Abstract:

 The paper deals with the complementizer dak, which marks conditional and temporal clauses in the speech of the last speakers of Kamas. It shows, that dak, borrowed from the local Russian dialect, in the heritage Kamas became the only marker of the conditional constructions and one of the two temporal conjunctions.