CONVERB PART OF THE PREDICATE IN THE KOMI AND KOMI-PERMIAN LANGUAGES

Komi and Komi-Permian belong to the Permian group of Finno-Ugric languages. There are many categories of conerbs in the Komi and Komi-Permian languages - more than twenty. Traditionally in the grammars and other sources the functional load of the converb in a sentence of the Komi and Komi-Permyak languages is defined as a secondary member of the sentence - circumstance, as well as a secondary predicate. The article examines one of the syntactic function of the Komi and KomiPermian converbs - the predicate function. A complete list of constructions is provided, and their syntactic role is defined as a predicate. The material of already known predicative constructions with converbs and new varieties of predicate with converbs was combined and analyzed. As a result, lexical-grammatical categories of the Komi and Komi-Permian converbs, that can perform a predicative function are identified: converbs with -omon, -mon, -todz, -tog. Presented copular verbs of 'to become', 'stay', 'live, dwell', modal verbs 'be able', 'need', 'allow' in positive and negative forms, evaluation predicative. 'badly' and other units. A new, more accurate representation of the polyfunctionality of Permian adverbial participles and their syntactic potential is given. Structural schemes of the constructions are presented in the article.