Vestnik of Samara University. History, pedagogics, philologyVestnik of Samara University. History, pedagogics, philology2542-04452712-8946Samara National Research University343010.18287/2542-0445-2013-19-8/1-116-121UnknownSEMANTIC AND WORD-FORMATION STRUCTURE OF TEMPORAL VOCABULARY IN THE MORDVIN LANGUAGESDevyatkinaE. M.morenov.sv@ssau.ruhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-1825-0097TsypkaikinaV. P.morenov.sv@ssau.ruhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-1825-0097the Dept. of Finno-Ugric languages, Institute of Linguistics, RAS, Moscow, 125009, Russian Federation.the Dept. of Erzya language, Ogarev Mordovia State University, Saransk, 430005, Russian Federation.01082013198/11161211502201715022017Copyright © 2013, Devyatkina E.M., Tsypkaikina V.P.2013<p>The paper analyzes the semantic and word-formation structure of temporal vocabulary in the Mordvin (Erzya and Moksha) languages. In the studied languages, among the words with temporal meaning nouns, adjectives, adverbs, participles and postpositions are singled out. The word-formation analysis showed that most of the words are formed by means of composition or suffixation. It should be noted that composition is the most productive way of word-formation in modern Mordvin languages.</p>Mordvin languagesErzya languageMoksha languagevocabularycompositionsuffixationмордовские языкиэрзянский языкмокшанский языклексикасловосложениесуффиксация