Methods of formation of the incomplete stem of nouns in the Avar language

Mallaeva Z. M.

The article considers one of the most urgent and still argumentative issues of the Avar grammar, i.e. the problem of formation of the incomplete stem of nouns. The author suggests a new approach to classifying the types of incomplete stem, which more properly reflects the language matters. At the same time, the article also solves some important for Avar’s morphology questions connected with the classification of the structures, forming incomplete stem, as well as grammar status of stem-formation elements. The article also reveals the number of structural types of the root morphemes, depending on each of the stem-formation affixes. There are also described such phonetic processes connected with the incomplete stem-formation as root vowels exchange, syncope, accent changes, etc. All the conclusions are confirmed by a number of examples, thus proving the true results of the research.

Keywords:Avar language, indirect stem, noun, determinative suffix.