Lexico-Semantic Ties of Russian Dialect Adjectives Describing Physical Appearance

The article studies the paradigmatic connections of adjectives that describe physical appearance of a person in the Russian dialects of Mordovia. The synonymic, antonymic, homonymous, polysemic relations within the framework of the lexico-semantic group are described. The general specificity of the paradigmatic connections of the dialect adjectives in comparison with the literary language is revealed.