Structural and communicative aspects of the sentence in the Mordovian languages

The article considers the questions of communicative and syntactic theory that have a fundamental significance for elaboration the word order teaching methods in the Mordovian languages: word order and actual division of a sentence, grammatical, semantic and stylistic functions of word order, interaction of communicative and structural aspects of word order, order of components' arrangement in simple and compound attributive word-combinations of the Mordovian (Erzya and Moksha) language. All the examples illustrating the rules of word-order in the Mordovian languages are taken from the literary works of Moksha and Erzya authors, textbooks and periodics.