Problems of the study of word formation in Dari linguistics
In Iranian studies, the scientific description of the Dari language mainly notes its differences from the modern Persian language. In the word-formation of the Dari language, special attention is paid to the affixational word-formation of parts of speech. In recent years, the comprehensive development of the Dari language has become noticeable, during which time there have been tangible changes in all its fields. In this regard, the study of the questions of the ways of forming, developing and improving the Dari language, substantiating the reasons, regularities and possibilities of this process, as well as determining the principles of word-formation, is becoming increasingly essential. This, in turn, points to the need for a separate study of the Dari language directly based on its materials. The article studies affixal and semi-affixal word-formation and the problems of compounding in the Dari language within the framework of genetically related languages. The derivational affix in the Dari language, also in Persian, produces a word that belongs to a certain lexical-grammatical category: in derived words, derivational features are simultaneously categorical. The leading role in replenishing the vocabulary of the modern Dari language belongs to word-formation through semi-affixes. In the Dari language, words in which the second part is expressed by a verb (the stem of simple verbs of the present tense, their variants with the suffix -i or the particle of negation, the form of the imperative mood) make up the majority of word-formation. The stems of prefix and compound verbs of the present tense are much less common here. Due to a large number of verbal word morphemes, semi-affixation, as well as affixation and compounding, is the most productive way in the system of word-formation. Semi-suffixes are used mainly in the formation of new socio-political and scientific-technical terms. In word-formation, an indicator of the method of lexicalization, i.e. the transformation of combinations with conjunction into complex words is high enough. The process of lexicalization of word-combinations in the Dari language is still at the stage of formation, which gives reason to assert the complexity of the distinction between a complex word and a word-combination. Among the phonetic, grammatical and semantic features that make it possible to distinguish a complex word from a word-combination, the main one is the grammatical feature.