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UDC 811.351`37
DOI 10.20339/PhS.5-26.023
Ibragimova Mariza Oglanovna,
Doctor of Philology, Docent, Chief Researcher
G. Tsadasa Institute of Language, Literature and Art
of the Dagestan Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Makhachkala, Russia)
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3910-3923
e-mail: mariza71@mail.ru
Research in the field of the logical-semantic category of quantitativeness, which expresses ideas about a complex of concepts of quantitative content — number, quantity, multitude, etc., remains one of the promising areas of modern Dagestan philology. The most frequent means of expressing the universal category of quantitativeness in the languages of the world are numerals, adjectives, adverbs, and quantitative pronouns. In this article, based on the material of the Dagestan languages, we consider less frequent representatives — diminutives and augmentatives, which reflect the semantics of the category of quantity, being contrasted according to the ‘small’ — ‘large’ feature. The fact that diminutives and augmentatives are peripheral actualizers of quantity semantics partly explains the scarcity of research in this area. The lack of morphological diminutive and augmentative formations in Dagestan languages necessitates their supplementation at the lexical-semantic level and prevents the described categories from being fully formed. The prospects of research aimed at studying diminutives and augmentatives, and comparing the forms of their actualization in numerous Dagestan languages, lie in the possibility of identifying and unifying the criteria for using representatives of the category of quantitativeness, which are contrasted by the semantics of ‘small’ and ‘large’, in idioms of various levels — in written and unwritten languages, dialects, and subdialects. In addition, the experience of studying material that is heterogeneous in terms of its area and grammar can be applied to the study of similar categories in other language families.
Keywords: Dagestan languages, the category of diminutivity, the category of augmentativity, representatives of the quantitativeness category
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