RELATIONAL PARADIGMATICS OF NEGATIVE PRONOUNS IN THE MOKSHA LANGUAGE (USING THE INSAR DIALECT AS AN EXAMPLE)

Abstract

This article examines the relational potential of negative pronouns in the Moksha-Mordovian language. The object of the study is the Insar dialect, which differs from other dialects of the Moksha language in that this category of pronouns is the most numerous in it, and is characterized by large inflection possibilities. The sources of study were used scientific works of domestic and foreign scientists, grammars of Mordovian languages, dialect material collected in the field and stored in the dictionary room of the faculty of Philology. The result of the analysis showed the following: in the Moksha language, negative pronouns are the same indefinite pronouns in verbs with or without negation (more often). The category of negative pronouns has eleven lexemes. If in the literary language negative pronouns do not have relational forms, then in the Insar dialect most of them change according to all three types of declension; agglutination of definiteness and possessiveness formants is carried out in the same sequence as in nouns; the variation of the excretory-amplifying particle within a single paradigm obeys the law of synharmonism. In the absence of a verb, negation, acting as a predicate, takes predicate and subject-object suffixes