Postpositional pronouns in Moksha transitive dialects of the Ruzaevsky area
The article deals with the most numerous category of pronouns in the Mokshan transitional dialects of the Ruzaevsky area - postpositional pronouns; their formation and genetic connections. Postpositional pronouns are complex formations; both in origin and morphological composition they are secondary. All other pronouns have a pronominal stem, and the postpositional pronouns have a nominal motivating stem - in this they coincide with postpositions. The main difference between postpositions and postpositional pronouns is that postpositions, having lost the categorical meaning of objectivity, are a service part of speech. When combined with a noun or pronoun, they are always in postposition to them and perform a grammatical function similar to case formants. Postpositional pronouns appeared from postpositions as a result of the loss by the latter of the pronoun with which they correspond; their integral part are possessive suffixes indicating the 1, 2, 3 person singular or plural. Postpositional pronouns act as independent words, performing the syntactic function of a certain member of the sentence.