FUNCTIONAL TRANSPOSITION OF PARTS OF SPEECH IN THE OSSETIAN LANGUAGE: ADJECTIVIZATION AND ADVERBIALIZATION
In modern linguistics, much attention is paid to the problems associated with transitivity in the field of parts of speech. Research in this direction, both in foreign and domestic linguistics, began to develop actively in the XXth century. The transition of words from one part of speech to another in the general theory of linguistics is called differently: functional transposition, partial derivation, conversion, morphological-syntactic way of word formation. It should be noted that the transition from one part of speech to another is one of the most significant and active ways of word formation in modern languages. This article discusses such special cases of functional transposition as adjectivization and adverbialization in the Ossetian language. At the same time, the vocabulary of both dialects, both Iron and Digor, was used as an illustrative material. In this study, we are of the opinion that adjectivation is a type of functional transposition, in which the transition of various parts of speech into the class of adjectives occurs, and adverbialization is the process of transition of different parts of speech into the class of adverbs. The article analyzes the theoretical issues related to this problem; specific manifestations of part-of-speech transitivity are considered. In the course of the study, the following conclusions were made: adjectivation and adverbialization, being particular methods of functional transposition, manifest themselves very actively in the Ossetian language, both in the Iron and Digor dialects; in the Ossetian language, nouns and participles can be subject to adjectivation; when transposed, adjectived units acquire the category of a comparative degree characteristic of an adjective; in the process of adverbialization, qualitative adjectives show the greatest activity; in some cases, adverbialization is characteristic of the noun and pronoun in the form of indirect cases.