ON THE SEMANTICS OF ABLATIVE IN THE ALTAI LANGUAGE
The paper studies an allomorphic nature of ablative in the Altai language. The research shows that some noun forms in Ablative are territorially relevant, they vary from one place to another. The author singles out 14 meanings of Altai Ablative, defining possessive, partitive, quantitative, temporal and other meanings. The work gives a list of common verbs that need indirect objects in Ablative and names postpositions, which also require names in Ablative. The research examines grammatical models with modal words bolgoy and aiabas, whose meanings are revealed in phrases with either nouns or participles in Ablative. The paper gives numerous illustrative examples of the usage of Ablative in Altai from imaginative literature and mass media texts.