INTERCHANGE OF CASES IN THE SEMANTIC ZONE OF THE ELATIVE IN THE KOMI LANGUAGE
Introduction. The modern period in the development of Finno-Ugric linguistics is characterized by an increased interest to the issues of the variable use of linguistic units having similar grammatical meaning. The study of grammatical variants, the determination of their quantitative ratio is of particular relevance for determining the trend of language development. The purpose of the paper is to describe typical contexts that allow variation of the elative with other cases, to determine the factors of the development of case variability. Materials and methods. The research material was texts from the Komi Language Corpus. Descriptive and comparative methods, methods of semantic analysis were used in the study. Research results, discussion. It is established that the elative can vary with the egressive when expressing spatial meaning, with the instrumentalis - when expressing the meanings of the instrument and the theme of the game, with the consecutive - when expressing the meaning of the reason, with the comparative - when expressing the comparative meaning. Conclusion. In the modern language, the elative, interchanging with other cases, may be in relation of free variation with another case, may be the dominant or peripheral form. The variable use of cases is due to various factors of linguistic evolution: the preservation of features inherited from the ancient state of the semantics of one of the cases; the independent development of similar functions in diff erent cases in accordance with typological trends and the borrowing of case usage as a result of areal contacts.