RELATIVE PRONOUNS AS CONNECTORS OF A COMPLEX SENTENCE IN THE LIVVIK DIALECT OF THE KARELIAN LANGUAGE

In the period of revitalization of the Karelian language, which belongs to the group of small languages of Russia, the study of various aspects of its grammatical and lexical structure is relevant. The novelty of the scientific research is due to the lack of studies that consider the issues of the functioning and semantics of relative pronouns in the context of a complex sentence. In this regard, this article is aimed at describing the composition and semantic spectrum of relative pronouns functioning in complex sentences of the Livvik dialect of the Karelian language. In conducting the study, the authors used various methods: general scientific (deductions and inductions, comparisons), comparative, typological, comparative-historical, the method of functional-semantic description. Dictionaries, textbooks and teaching aids in the Livvik dialect of the newly written Karelian language became the basis for collecting linguistic units. The results of the conducted research indicate that the history, composition, meanings and conditions of use of deictic words that connect parts of a complex sentence require a special comprehensive historical and grammatical study: the currently available dictionary, corpus and educational materials are insufficient for conclusions concerning the functional distinction between synonyms such as mittuine ‘what’ and kudai ‘which’, the semantic shades of connectors in the main and subordinate parts, as well as the evolution of discourse pairs (relates and correlates) in the syntactic structure from the Proto-Uralic through the Proto-Finnic era to the modern system of individual Finno-Ugric languages, including the dialects of the Karelian newly written language.