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DOI: 10.46698/VNC.2021.81.42.011

SEMANTIC AND STYLISTIC BASIS OF MORPHOLOGICAL DOUBLETS

Gutieva, Elmira T.
Izvestia SOIGSI. 2021. IIS 42 (81).
Abstract:
Parallel plural forms in the Ossetian language are found both in the borrowed words,
which may sign the degree of assimilation of a loan, and in the declension of the original words.
Such forms are noted mainly in the system of kinship terms, their analysis makes it possible to
clarify ideas about the etymological development of the individual words, about the general
development of morphological system, and semantic processes in the system of terms of kinship.
Extrapolation of data from other languages, as well as diachronic analysis of the Ossetian
material, proper, makes it possible to fill in the missing elements of the matrix. Based on the
comparison of the parallel forms of the plural of kinship terms, a conclusion is made about the
linguistic need to mark different meanings in a morphological way, to indicate the collective
plural, peculiar to a number of languages, to distinguish between the simple plural and the
collective, and to designate the stylistic features of one form or another. Particular attention is
paid to the absence of a regular plural form in the Ossetian lexeme of affinity “us” – “wife”. The
presence of parallel forms may reflect the initial existence of the paronyms, in which, due to the
minimal semantic distance between them and the high homonymy, there was a contamination
of two declination paradigms. The paronym, formed by the suffix of the terms of kinship, could
have meant “wife”, respectively, the paronym without the formant could have been used in the
meaning of “woman”. The formation of plural forms could also be influenced by other linguistic
processes. Both the emergence and loss of doublet forms could be accounted for by extralinguistic
factors.
Keywords: plural, grammatical meaning, declension paradigm, kinship terms, archaization, the institution of marriage
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