I. YAKOVLEV CHUVASH STATE PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN

: paired words, Chuvash language, Mari language, comparative studies, language contacts

This work is devoted to the study of paired words that exist in the languages of the central zone of the Volga-Kama language union – Chuvash and Mari. The aim of the research is to establish the common layer of paired lexical formations in the compared languages. The research material was the lists of paired words compiled on the basis of academic lexicographic sources. The work was done in a comparative aspect. It is based on a quantitative and qualitative approach that allows an objective assessment of the parameters of the phenomenon under consideration. As a result of the research, the author comes to the conclusion that there are more than two times more paired words in the Chuvash language than in the Mari. This disproportion is due to the dominance of the syntactic way of word formation in the Chuvash language, in contrast to the Mari with its leading affix way of derivation. The author presents the classification of the common fund of the Chuvash and Mari paired formations: 1) Chuvashisms in the Mari language, which are absent in the original language; 2) Chuvashisms in the Mari language, which have been preserved in the donor language; 3) common units with opposite arrangement of components; 4) Mariisms in the Chuvash language. The Mari list of paired words contains the units of Chuvash origin that are absent in the original language. For this reason, the Mari material can become a new area of ​​contactological research, contributing to the reconstruction of similar lacunar paired words in the Chuvash language.

Кириллова Валентина Юрьевна – аспирант Чувашского государственного университета имени И. Н. Ульянова, доцент кафедры профессионального развития педагогических работников Чувашского республиканского института образования, г. Чебоксары, Россия; e-mail: walentina_83@mail.ru