«Adjectives» in Uralic Languages (on Basis of the Finnish, Hungarian, Udmurt, Komi and Mordvinian Languages)
This article is dedicated to the problem of status determination of the word classes that fulfill the function of the actant attribute in the Finnish, Hungarian, Udmurt, Komi and Mordvinian languages. The problem of determination of this class of words consists in the absence of their own categories, they always borrow these categories either from the nouns as in case of the Finnish language or they remain invariable as in case of the Hungarian, Udmurt, Komi and Mordvinian languages and then the difficulty emerges to distinguish, for example, the actant attribute and the predicate attribute. These facts do not allow us saying, as traditionally, about the independent part of speech – adjectives, only about the group of wordforms, formed of roots of quality meanings and united by the function of expressing of the attribute.
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Issue: 9, 2006
Series of issue: Humanities (Philology)
Rubric: Languages and Cultures of the Peoples of the Russian Federation
Pages: 67 — 70
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