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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">Voprosy Jazykoznanija</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">Voprosy Jazykoznanija</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Вопросы языкознания</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">0373-658X</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">3034-5243</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="en">The Russian Academy of Sciences</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">650553</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.31857/0373-658X.2024.5.65-79</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject></subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>Information structure and syntax of Uralic languages</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="article-type"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title xml:lang="en">The influence of internal possessors on argument coding in Northern Khanty</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Влияние внутреннего посессора на кодирование аргументов в севернохантыйском языке</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Muravyev</surname><given-names>Nikita A.</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Муравьев</surname><given-names>Никита Алексеевич</given-names></name></name-alternatives><address><country country="DE">Germany</country></address><email>nikita.muraviev@gmail.com</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff1"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">University of Hamburg</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Университет Гамбурга</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2024-11-01" publication-format="electronic"><day>01</day><month>11</month><year>2024</year></pub-date><issue>5</issue><fpage>65</fpage><lpage>79</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2025-01-31"><day>31</day><month>01</month><year>2025</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement xml:lang="en">Copyright ©; 2024, Russian Academy of Sciences</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="ru">Copyright ©; 2024, Российская академия наук</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2024</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Russian Academy of Sciences</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Российская академия наук</copyright-holder></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://journals.eco-vector.com/0373-658X/article/view/650553">https://journals.eco-vector.com/0373-658X/article/view/650553</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="en"><p>The study examines contexts in Northern Khanty where the presence of internal possessors in the noun phrases of the core arguments influences their morphosyntactic coding. Based on the corpus data from the Kazym dialect of Khanty, I investigate contexts in which the presence of a third-person topical possessor in the agent or patient NP leads to agent demotion and passivization. The article provides an analysis of these contexts in terms of the interaction between discourse prominence and processing efficiency. It is demonstrated that passive voice is used as an ambiguity-resolving strategy when several unmarked participants are present in the clause, or when referential conflict may arise due to unclear reference of an anaphoric possessive marker. This strategy applies whenever the agent is less prominent than either the patient or the possessor of the patient, or whenever both possessors of the agent and the patient are present, and both core arguments are low on animacy, agentivity, and topicality hierarchies, in which case passivization is due not to their relative prominence but rather to considerations of processing efficiency.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru"><p>В исследовании рассматриваются контексты в севернохантыйском языке, в которых наличие внутреннего посессора в именных группах ядерных участников влияет на кодирование этих актантов. На основе корпусных данных казымского диалекта хантыйского рассматриваются контексты, в которых присутствие топикального посессора третьего лица в именной группе агенса или пациенса приводит к понижению агенса и пассивизации. В статье проводится анализ таких контекстов с точки зрения взаимодействия дискурсивной значимости и эффективности обработки речи. Установлено, что пассивный залог используется как стратегия разрешения неоднозначности, когда в предложении присутствуют несколько немаркированных участников, а также когда может возникнуть референциальный конфликт из-за неоднозначной референции анафорического посессивного маркера. Эта стратегия применяется, когда агенс менее дискурсивно значим, чем пациенс или посессор пациенса, или когда присутствуют посессоры и агенса, и пациенса, и оба основных аргумента занимают низкую позицию на иерархиях одушевленности, агентивности и топикальности — в данном случае использование пассивного залога обусловлено не их иерархической позицией, а соображениями удобства восприятия.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>argument structure</kwd><kwd>Northern Khanty</kwd><kwd>passive</kwd><kwd>possession</kwd><kwd>Uralic</kwd><kwd>voice</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>аргументная структура</kwd><kwd>залог</kwd><kwd>пассив</kwd><kwd>посессивность</kwd><kwd>севернохантыйский язык</kwd><kwd>уральские языки</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group/></article-meta></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><mixed-citation>Aissen 1997 — Aissen J. On the syntax of obviation. 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