WAYS TO REPRESENT THE SEMANTICS OF GENDER IN DIFFERENT LANGUAGES

Abstract

Based on the comparison and correlation of the main lexical units used to represent the gender semantics, as well as the factual material of large amount of examples from the Azerbaijani, Avar and Russian languages, the main ways to express gender are shown. The relevance of such research at the current development stage of both Russian and world linguistics and society as a whole conducting necessity is justified. To achieve the goal, the author solves four research tasks. First, the distinguishing between latent and structural, marked ways of expressing the gender identity semantics problem is considered. Further, special attention is paid to considering the first method application in the languages. Characteristic features of the expressing gender semantics structural ways that exist in them are highlighted and described. As the last research task, the authors describe the most typical cases of their use. The article concludes that there are two main ways of expressing gender of a designated object: latent, or hidden, and structural, or marked, within which two varieties are distinguished: morphological and syntactic. In different languages, each of these methods can be used depending on the specifics of the grammatical structure of the language itself.