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Mutalov R.O. [Nominal morphology of the Dargin languages: the peculiarities in Kubachi and Itzari idioms] World of Science. Series: Sociology, Philology, Cultural Studies, 2023, Vol. 14, No. 4. Available at: https://sfk-mn.ru/PDF/67FLSK423.pdf (in Russian). DOI: 10.15862/67FLSK423

Nominal morphology of the Dargin languages: the peculiarities in Kubachi and Itzari idioms

Mutalov Rasul Osmanovich
Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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Abstract. The article deals with the peculiarities of nominal parts of speech functioning in the Kubachi language and the Itzari dialect of the Tsudahar-Sirkhya language (the Dargin branch of the Nakh-Dagestanian languages). There are significant differences in both phonetics and grammatical structure in the Dargin languages, although the Dargin was considered to be the one language in previous period. However, the aim of establishing a final classification of Dargin languages and dialects is complicated by the absence of full comparative study within the Dargin languages. A comparative analysis of grammatical categories of nominal parts of speech is held in this work. As a result of the study, common features and different peculiarities of the Kubachi language and the Itzari dialect are identified. A number of morphological phenomena which is common to both of them and not specific to other neighboring Dargin idioms are revealed. In particular, it is common to both linguistic units under study: the 2nd personal pronoun coincidence, the functioning of simple numerals without the suffix -al, the presence of changing class indicator in attributive suffixes (-zi-b) and others. Based on these facts, it is concluded that in the proto-Dargin language, the Kubachi and Itsari idioms belonged to one and the same group of dialects. However, later, as a result of linguistic changes, they broke up into independent linguistic units, and that fact explains the existing differences. The results obtained will be useful in preparing a comparative historical grammar of the Dargin languages.

Keywords: the Dargin languages; the Kubachi language; the Itzari dialect; category of number; category of case; numeral; pronoun

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