Humanities & Social Sciences 10 (2016 9) 2406-2412 ~ ~ ~ УДК 81.2 Ev 9 Attributive Pronouns in the Even language Valeria S. Fedorenkova* The Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia 48 Nab. <...> Reki Moiki, St. Petersburg, 191186, Russia Received 19.06.2016, received in revised form 24.07.2016, accepted 02.09.2016 The article discusses the problem of the status of attributive pronouns in the grammatical system of the Even language and analyses their semantic and functional features. <...> The determination of the place of pronouns in the parts of speech system and the issue of their singling out as a separate part of speech remains controversial. <...> Attributive pronouns include consolidative and distinguished words with dissimilar semantics: the qualifiers of the subject and object of the action, consolidation and differentiation, totality and completeness, which are categorically correlative with adjectives, nouns and adverbs. <...> The author shows the lexical and semantic differences of attributive pronouns in the dialects of the Even language, indicates the forms of attributive and attributive-possessive pronouns in the Western dialects that are absent in the Eastern dialects of the Even language. <...> Keywords: Even language, morphology, semantic level of pronouns, attributive pronouns, pronominal words. <...> Their status pronominalis, place in the parts of speech system, the question of their singling out in a separate part of speech remains debatable. <...> The traditional view on the pronoun as a special part of speech is challenged by many linguists. <...> The discord arises from the different understanding of semantics of pronominatives and their grammatical functions. <...> As a rule, the pronoun is defined as the part of speech indicating objects, features and amounts, without naming them (ngi – “who”, he – “you”, erek – “this”, ady – “vul” / ady-gul – “a few”). <...> Shvedova, E.N. Sidorenko, O.E. Rudenko et al.) consider this definition not enough complete and tend to treat the pronoun as a special part of speech, categorically related to nouns, adjectives, numerals, adverbs, impersonal-predicative words, which “having a Valeria S. Fedorenkova. <...> Attributive Pronouns in the Even language special pronominal method of objective reality representation” (Sidorenko, 2005, p. 31). <...> Based on the main lexical and semantic functions of pronominatives and their grammatical function in the Even language, we can distinguish the following types: 1) pronouns, correlative with nouns: bi – “I <...>