LINGUISTICS

Herald of the G. Tsadasa Institute of Language, Literature and Art. Issue 25 (2021)


TO THE QUESTION OF THE CORRELATION OF LABILITY AND CAUSATIVE IN THE AVAR LANGUAGE

UDK: 811.351.12

Pages: 6 - 10


The article establishes that one or another form of a labile verb can be transitive or intransitive, even when it implements the same semantics. Historically, the opposition transitivity ~ intransitivity was preceded by opposition on the basis of static ~ dynamic, which led to the emergence of two syntactic constructions – the absolutive and the ergative. Opposition on the basis of static ~ dynamic determines the specificity of the entire grammatical structure of the Avar language, including the formation of the causative. The specificity of the formation of the causative by labile verbs in the Avar language is that only a form repre-senting the semantics of an action is capable of expressing direct or intentional causation, and a form repre-senting the semantics of a state expresses only an unintentional causation.


Keywords: the Avar language, labile verb, causative, transitivity ~ intransitivity, static ~ dynamic..




To issue content

Download full text