ADJECTIVE IN THE MORPHOLOGICAL SYSTEM OF THE DIALECTS OF THE DARGIN LANGUAGE

Abstract

The study of dialectological issues provides significant material for studying the history of a particular language, processes of its development, inter-dialectal contacts, mutual influences, etc. Dargin language is one of the branches of Nakh-Dagestanian group of languages, and it has got a greater number of dialects within one language in comparison with other Nakh-Dagestanian ones. In this regard scientific research of the morphological features of adjectives and their functioning in the dialects of the Dargin language is relevant nowadays. The research material is the authors’ data collected in places of compact residence of native speakers of dialects and also material taken from the vocabulary of the Kadar dialect of the Dargin language in comparison with the literary Dargin language, given in the appendix to N.A. Vagizieva’s research work. Descriptive and comparative methods are used in the paper. As a result of the study, the main ways of forming adjectives and their structural and grammatical features of functioning in the dialects of the Dargin language are revealed.