AFFIXAL WORD FORMATION OF NOUNS IN THE KUMYK LANGUAGE

Abstract

The article presents a study of affixal word formation of nouns in the Kumyk language. Word formation occupies one of the key places in the grammatical system. Affixes forming nouns from names are divided into affixes of the person of the figure, affixes with diminutive meanings, affixes of collectivity and affixes forming the names of objects. In the Kumyk language, as in other Turkic languages, there are productive and unproductive affixes forming nouns from names. There are more unproductive affixes than productive affixes, but the number of words formed by them is small. The authors conclude that the word-forming affixes of the Kumyk language enrich the vocabulary not only at the expense of nominal words, but also by joining the verbal bases. Derivatives of verbs lose the verbal feature that the original bases possessed. These affixes are characterized in the Kumyk language by unequal productivity.