REDUPLICATION IN THE ENGLISH AND TSAKHUR LANGUAGES

Abstract

The aim of this article is to investigate the linguistic potential of reduplication in English and Tsakhur, which are two polar samples of genealogically, typologically and culturally different Indo-European and Nakh-Dagestani language families. The most characteristic types of reduplication are identified, common and specific forms of reduplicatives and the arsenal of means of their formation in each of the compared languages are established. The choice of specific research methods is determined by the nature of scientific research and includes the use of methods of comparison, analysis, synthesis and generalization. In the contrasted English and Tsakhur languages reduplication is mainly used as a word-forming means. At the phonomorphological level, an arsenal of specific linguistic means used in the formation of reduplicatives has been revealed in each of the compared languages. In the lexical system of the compared languages reduplicatives functionally represent the semantics of plurality, and in some cases serve as a means of varying lexical meaning, expressing the semantics of intensity, fractionality, diminutiveness, dimension, weight, loudness, etc. In the verb paradigm of the Tsakhur language, reduplication may be used to express the grammatical meaning of aspect.