Emphatic transcategorial morphology: a cross-linguistically rare phenomenon in Enets

Emphatic transcategorial morphology: a cross-linguistically rare phenomenon in Enets. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences, 2011. This paper explores the data of Enets, a highly endangered Northern Samoyedic language spoken in the North of Siberia. The two dialects of this language will be discussed: Forest Enets (F) and Tundra Enets (T) with the total number of speakers not exceeding 50 people. Our corpus of transcribed Forest Enets texts consists of 21.5 hours, and our corpus of transcribed Tundra Enets texts consists of 9.5 hours