The Emergence of Hierarchical Alignment in Northern Khanty: A Comparative Dialectal Corpus Study

This study investigates the morphosyntactic coding of core arguments in Northern Khanty, with a focus on the use of active/passive voice and subjective/objective conjugation. The goal is to offer a more detailed understanding of the coding patterns across dialects. To achieve this, I analyze corpus data from four Northern Khanty dialects: Obdorsk, Shuryshkary, Tegi, and Kazym Khanty, using a dataset of 4,320 transitive clauses from available corpora. These clauses are manually annotated based on