ABOUT LEXICAL AND GRAMMATICAL CATEGORIES OF NOUNS IN THE TABASARAN LANGUAGE

Abstract

The process of formation and further development of the Tabasaran literary language cannot yet be considered fully completed, because many issues of phonetics and phonology, orthography and orthoepy, stylistics and vocabulary, as well as grammar of the young-written Tabasaran language require further study and improvement. The article characterizes the lexical and grammatical categories of nouns in the Tabasaran language. In the modern Tabasaran language, the noun as a part of speech is characterized by the categorical meaning of objectivity, a developed system of word and formative models, a semasiological category of class, grammatical categories of number and case. In a sentence, nouns most often perform the role of a subject, direct and indirect complement. Moreover, in Tabasaran, unlike in many other languages, ergative, dative, genitive, there are locative constructions of three-part sentences.