Mechanisms of reference and genre specificity of folklore text (on the material of the Koryak and Alutor languages)

This article is devoted to the stuy of mechanisms of reference in folklore texts in different dialects of settled and nomadic Koryaks. The paper considers the reasons and mechanisms of complication of introductive referential descriptions in the Кoryak and Alutor languages. The complication of descriptions is caused by particular referential background reflected in texts. The genre specificity of the text determines the choice of base models for referential nominations.