THE MAIN WAYS OF WORD-FORMATION OF ADJECTIVES IN TABASARAN LANGUAGE
There are no works dedicated to word-formation of adjectives in Tabasaran language. That is why the article represents an attempt to characterize the main ways of word-formation of adjectives in Tabasaran language. Word-formation characteristics of adjectives in Tabasaran language is quite easy: original adjectives are formed from the nouns with the help of suffixes -и, -у, -уь, -ю, etc. The suffixes -лу и -суз borrowed from the Azerbaidjan language are used very often. These suffixes can be used with some original words, and there are also some adjectives borrowed from Russian, which are always used in the form of masculine gender. The characteristic features of the adjectives in Tabasaran are that they don’t correspond with nouns in gender, number and case in definite function. Some adjectives are formed by adding affixes -сир, -сиб to the nouns. These forms show that adjectives in Tabasaran language are characterized by the presence of unchangeable attribute form and changeable predicative form. The last one has morphological category of number and case.