Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences / Status and Functions of the Determinative in the Verb Morphemics of the Avar Language

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Issue
Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2023 16 (6)
Authors
Mallaeva, Zulaikhat M.; Samedov, Dzhalil S.
Contact information
Mallaeva, Zulaikhat M.: Institute of Language, Literature and Art named after G. Tsadasa Dagestan Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences Makhachkala, the Republic of Dagestan, Russian Federation; ; ORCID: 0000-0003-4303-6663; Samedov, Dzhalil S.: Dagestan State University Makhachkala, the Republic of Dagestan, Russian Federation
Keywords
verb; types of stems; morphemics; determinative; categorical formant; function; historical changes
Abstract

The researchers of the Avar language haven’t come to a unique point of view concerning the definition of such terms as thematic vowel (determinative suffix) and categorical formant. The status of post-root morphemes of the finite forms of a verb has not been clearly determined yet. The researchers haven’t studied the questions of the correlation of root morphemes and affixes, isomorphism and homonymy of morphemes not only in Avar, but also in other Dagestanian languages and these questions are of specific linguistic interest. The article notes that the morphemic structure of the Avar verb consists of three components: pre-root morpheme + root morpheme + post-root morpheme. The pre-root morpheme, an indicator of grammatical class and number, is represented in a fairly limited number of verbs. The vast majority of primordial verbs have a two-component structure – root morpheme + suffix morpheme. The latter component is traditionally identified with the categorical formant. The analysis shows that the suffix morpheme does not always coincide with the categorical formant. In verbs of a certain structure, the suffix morpheme is a suffix complex consisting of two independent suffixes of different functional charge: determinative and categorical. The article reveals the reasons for the appearance of the determinative suffix, provides a list of verbs whose structure contains the determinative, and defines its functions. The article draws attention to historical changes in the morphemic structure of the verb stem proper, and Masdar, the cases of interaction of the structural and functional changes in the structure of verb stem of the Avar language, defines the functional features of the determiners

Pages
945–952
EDN
PUVMZC
Paper at repository of SibFU
https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/150135

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