PAIRED WORDS AS A WAY OF EXPRESSING PLURALITY IN THE BASHKIR LANGUAGE
The article is devoted to the study of the category of quantification in the Bashkir language. The multiformity and multidimensionality of the quantification category is explained by the fact that it intertwines various phenomena of vocabulary, word formation, form formation, morphology, syntax, etc. The question of the category of quantification has been studied rather thoroughly, but despite the existence of extensive literature, it remains controversial and requires further research not only in Bashkir linguistics, but also in Turkology as a whole. Quantification is the subject of study by philosophers, historians, sociologists, mathematicians, ethnographers, cultural scientists, etc. In linguistics, quantification is considered from various points of view: as a grammatical category, as a functional-semantic category, as an interdisciplinary category. In functional and semantic relation, the category of quantification reflects the quantitative characteristic of objects, things, objects, phenomena, actions, signs, corresponding to a wide layer of vocabulary. This article considers paired words in the formation of which almost all parts of speech of the Bashkir language participate. Paired words consisting of two independent synonymic and antonymic components, as well as associative and reduplication links between components of paired words were analyzed. Paired words are diverse in structure and semantics, have the meaning of multiplicity, quantity, generalization, and other values of quantity, and require further research.