I. YAKOVLEV CHUVASH STATE PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN

Old Tatar literary language, newspaper language, grammatical system, the Optative Mood, “Borkhane Tarakki”, “Koyash”

This article examines the functioning of the grammatical system of the Old Tatar written literary language of the beginning of the 20th century. The article identifies and analyzes the grammatical forms involved in the implementation of the Optative Mood of the verbs that function in the texts of the Tatar-language Arabic script periodical press of 1905–1917.
The scientific study of the texts of the periodical press is relevant. In the texts of newspapers and magazines, along with the literary texts, there was a development of the Old Tatar written literary lan-guage and its transformation into the national language of the Tatars.
Morphological indicators recorded in the texts of the newspapers “Borkhane Tarakki” and “Ko-yash” were used as factual material. During the scientific development, the author applied the methods of linguistic description, genetic identification of facts, the methods of comparative and comparative his-torical analysis.
As a result of the research, the author has identified that a number of synthetic and analytical forms of the Optative Mood are used in the studied texts. The most common is the synthetic -aj, -yj form. In the texts of the “Borkhane Tarakki”, in contrast to the texts of the “Koyash”, the traditional general-Turkic grammatical -lym/-lem form is used.

кандидат филологических наук, заведующий отделом общей лингвистики Института языка, литературы и искусства им. Г. Ибрагимова Академии наук Республики Татарстан, г. Казань, Россия; e-mail: bahtiyar1986@yandex.ru