Masdar constructions in complex sentences in the Archi language
This article considers the features of functioning of masdar constructions in the Archi language, one of the non-written Dagestan languages. The relevance of the problem is due to the fact that in the Archi language, as in a number of other Dagestan written and non-written languages, masdar constructions with their own subject, different from the subject of the main predicate, form a dependent predication in complex sentences. The purpose of the article is to analyze the features of the structural - semantic organization and syntactic «behavior» of masdar constructions with their own subject in complex sentences of the Archi language. In this regard, the article gives a new interpretation of masdar constructions, which is quite different from the traditional point of view reflected in the educational and scientific literature. The analysis of masdar functioning in the genitive, dative and local nouns in complex sentences in Archi language is made. The features of the coordination of transitive and intransitive masdars with objective and subjective nominative groups (actants) are revealed. Options for co-reference in compound sentences with masdar structures and terms of the obligation-optionality of pronominal coreference components in the dependent predication are identified. The semantic specificity of the vertex (main) verbal predicates, connecting masdar and participles in the structure of complex sentences is considered. As a he result of the study the features of forming complex sentences are identified and described where the dependent predication is presented by masdar structures; different peculiarities of functioning of masdar in complex sentences in Archi language are also described.