THE LANGUAGE OF ORAL FOLK ART AS A SOURCE OF FORMATION OF THE AVAR LITERARY LANGUAGE

Oral and poetic creativity played a huge role in the development of the Avar language, in particular, in the for-mation, formation and development of written and literary norms. It was folklore that had a beneficial influence on the formation and development of the narrative genres of Avar fiction. Already at the dawn of its develop-ment, Avar fiction used all the expressive means of colloquial speech developed in folklore. The hammered syllable of the oral and poetic creativity of the Avars, its rich vocabulary, complex syntactic constructions were the basis for the formation of written literary norms.

ON THE ETYMOLOGY OF THE AVAR WORD ʕEMER «A LOT»

The paper deals with etymology of the Avar word ʕemer “much”, “a lot”. Particular attention was paid to possi-ble connections with isolated languages – Basque and Hurrian.

STRUCTURAL PECULIARITY OF SOME SOMATIC PHRASEOLOGICAL UNITS OF THE CHAMALI LANGUAGE

The article analyzes the structural features of somatic phraseological units of the Сhamali language with the components «head», «eyes», «heart» etc.

MEMOIR GENRES IN THE DAGESTAN LITERATURE OF THE LATE XIX– EARLY XX CENTURY (Based on the memoirs of M. Kushiev)

The article deals with the notes of the Dagestan goldsmith-gunsmith M. G. Kushiev (1877–1942), in which he told about its unique and rich experiences of life. Memoirs of Magomed Kushiev is also a story about the life of thousands of Dagestan retirees – masters of various professions and crafts, who regularly left their villages to work. Notes of M. Kushiev have obvious folk roots, as in the story, and the form. In addition, there is a similarity with the European adventure novel. But the main value of the memoirs of Kushiev that we can see the world of the late XIX – early XX centuries through the eyes of the Dagestan man of this period.

MORPHOLOGICAL-SYNTACTIC AND LEXICAL SIGNIFICANCE IN LEXICOGRAPHIC BILINGUALISM (Based on the materials of the edited Lezghin-Russian Dictionary)

This article touches on some morphological-syntactic and lexical issues related to the category of gender, number and case in nouns and issues of the syntactic connection of control and coordination, both in the Lezghin and in the Russian parts of the Lezghin-Russian dictionary we are editing. Based on factual material, the existing problems on the above issues are demonstrated and the importance of compliance with all language standards in practice is emphasized.

THE ADVERBIAL PARTICIPLE AS A PREDICATE OF THE SOLDERED PART OF A COMPLEX-SOLDERED SENTENCE IN THE KUMYK LANGUAGE

The article discusses the issues of the complex sentence of the specified united type with the predicative – ad-verbial participle of the dependent part. There are identified and characterized its structural and semantic fea-tures compared to other types of subordinate clauses.

ON MUTUAL PRONOUNS IN THE LEZGHIN LANGUAGE

The article deals with the study of the problem of mutual pronouns in the Lezghin language, namely, the expe-diency of separating this category into a separate category, and those features of the Lezghin language, due to which such a selection is problematic.

THE SYSTEM OF IMAGES IN THE STORY OF M. S. SULIMANOV «THE BLACK CAVE»

The article considers the system of images in the story «The Black Cave» by the Avar writer Magomed Sulimanov based on the means of a literary work. The concepts of «children's literature», «image», «system of images» in a work of art are interpreted theoretically. The article examines the artistic world of the story with an emphasis on the analysis of images and their interpretation.

RITUAL WORDS AND SONGS IN THE MUSICAL FOLKLORE OF THE DARGINS

The structure of the musical folklore of the Dargins is considered in accordance with the social organization, in relation to the levels of the rural community: tribal (tukhum), rural neighbor (jamaat) and inter-village (khureba). In the article, the author, basing on the field expedition material from the personal archive, focuses on the ritual genres of the tribal and calendar cycles that exist in both applied and ritual functions. In the ritual genres, the forms of performance are revealed, and the attachment of vocal and instrumental genres to gender and age groups is also traced.

TRADITIONAL WEAPONS ART OF DAGESTAN: ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE MASTER R. G. AKHMEDOV’S WORKS

The article attempts to highlight the traditional art of arms in Dagestan. A generalizing analysis of the arms trade is given; on the example of the author's works of the master of cold weapons Ramazan Akhmedov, the degree of influence of the author's works on the further development of modern arms art in Dagestan as a whole (for the period of the late XX – early XXI centuries) is determined. The innovative technologies and the characteristic ornamental style of compositions of the author's edged weapons are described.