Functional status lexemes with affixes -u//-ue//-eu in the Kabardino-Circassian language
https://doi.org/10.31143/2542-212X-2025-2-266-277
EDN: YGKTIM
Abstract
The article focuses on a crucial issue in Adyghe linguistics: defining the functional status and clarifying the origins of Kabardino-Circassian formations ending in -у//-уе//-эу, a topic that has fueled ongoing scholarly discussion. In the Kabardino-Circassian language, because of its polyfunctionality, wordforms involving the affix -у//-уе//-эу can, from a grammatical point of view, belong to different classes of words.
Researchers of the Adyghe languages have expressed different opinions regarding the functional weight and genesis of the formant -у//-уе//-эу. This article, based on the analysis of linguistic material, presents the argument that the affix -у//-уе//-эу in Kabardino-Circassian should be classified as a word-forming, form-building, and inflectional element with a broad range of semantic contributions to the sentence. Along with the consideration of its word-formation, form-building and inflectional functions the work presents the history of the study of the issue and genesis of the formant -у//-уе//-эу with outlining various views of Adyghe researchers on this problem.
About the Author
Zagirat T. Khashkhozheva
Kabardino-Balkarian State University named after H.M. Berbekov
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Candidate of Philological Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of Kabardino-Circassian Language and Literature
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Khashkhozheva Z.T. Functional status lexemes with affixes -u//-ue//-eu in the Kabardino-Circassian language. Kavkazologiya. 2025;(2):266-277. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.31143/2542-212X-2025-2-266-277. EDN: YGKTIM
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