VERBS OF VISUAL PERCEPTION IN THE ALTAI LANGUAGE

Abstract

The work studies Altai verbs expressing the process of visual perception. The specified group of verbs is understudied. The Altai-Russian Dictionary (2018) serves as a source of the analyzed material, which most fully presents the vocabulary of the modern Altai literary language and discloses the semantic structures of polysemous words. Examples of the use of verbs are taken from the works of art of Altai writers and the newspaper “Altaydyn Cholmony”. The article presents the basic Altai verbs of visual perception and lexemes derived from them. The study makes it possible to identify the composition of Altai verbs of visual perception, to distinguish basic and derived lexemes among them, to identify the semantic features of the verbs under consideration. It has been established that the paradigm of derivatives from basic verbs of lexemes differs in quantitative terms. The analysis also shows that some lexemes have additional meanings except the process of visual perception.