ON THE COMPARATIVE STUDY OF UNRELATED LANGUAGES (BASED ON FRENCH AND AVAR)

Abstract

The article presents the cross-linguistic comparative study of unrelated languages. The research on the most controversial and understudied aspects of the grammar of Avar, such as the representation of voice or infinitive in Avar in comparison with French, allows to identify some specific features and patterns in the use of verbs in Avar. The choice of modern French is not random, as French linguists, who have been studying Caucasian languages and Avar in particular for a long time, do not pay due attention to the comparative aspect of research. A cross-linguistic comparative study of modern Avar and French as absolutely unrelated languages, which are genealogically, locationally, typologically and statistically different, has shown more similarities than differences. Based on the comparison of many facts, it has been established that almost all modern tense forms in the Avar language have equivalents in French. It can be explained by the unity of mental and biological organization of human nature and general laws of language and human life development which form a single experience, a result that both native and foreign language research can and should be based on.