ON THE COMPARATIVE STUDY OF SENTENTIAL AND CONSTITUENT NEGATION IN THE LESGHIN AND RUSSIAN LANGUAGES

Abstract

. The article discusses similarities and differences in the construction of sentential and constituent negation sentences between Lezghin and Russian. To distinguish between these types of negation, it is important to understand the differences between the Russian and Lezghin languages in the construction of negative forms of verbs in general. In Lezghin, they are formed with the help of affixes: finite forms are formed with the help of their own postfixes, and non-finite forms are formed with the help of other prefixes. The finite negative forms in most of the cases coincide with the phrasal negations, and therefore with the sentential negation, and the non-finite negative forms coincide both with the negation in words and the constituent negation. In Russian, both phrasal negation and negation in words are generally constructed by means of the particle не (not). Accordingly, the Russian language does not have its own specific formal means of constructing sentential and constituent negations. Such language disorder tendencies are equally possible in both of the languages under study.