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Issue 100
LINGUISTICS
UDK: 811.35
BOUNDARIES AND ACTUALIZERS OF THE AUGMENTATIVE CATEGORY (BASED ON THE MATERIAL OF THE RUTUL LANGUAGE)
IBRAGIMOVA Mariza Oglanovna
The article addresses the problems of defining the status and boundaries of the augmentative category and its actualizers in the Rutul language, which belongs to the Nakh-Daghestan language family. Various scholarly perspectives on the category under study are characterized, and the author's own position is set forth. The augmentative category, semantically opposed to the diminutive category, is defined as a semantic-pragmatic category that actualizes the meaning of large size, quantity, or a high degree of manifestation of a feature. The limited research into this category is explained by the small number of its representatives and the peripheral status of augmentatives as actualizers of quantity semantics. It is acknowledged that instances of blurred boundaries of the studied category in the Rutul language — where the conceptual status of certain units can be simultaneously associated with both augmentatives and diminutives, or with derogatives and augmentatives – are conditioned by semantic conflicts. The representatives of the augmentative category are identified and described at the lexical-semantic, phraseological-semantic, paremiological-semantic, and morphological levels. The article characterizes both affixes specific to semantic-pragmatic categories and those used in marking augmentatives in the Rutul language. It is determined that the lack of morphological augmentative formations in Dagestani languages necessitates their replenishment at the lexical-semantic level.
Keywords: Rutul language; augmentative category; semantic-pragmatic category; augmentative suffixes in Rutul.
Pages: 110 - 113
Date: 20.01.2026
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