Abstract:
Imitative words are language phenomenon that traces back to early times. As any other words they had
been improving through the process of language development thanks to folk literatures and every day speech.
However, the division of imitative as a separate part of Speech still has not found its solution. There are some actual
problems that can be solved. They are: two types of imitative words: words, reproducing or representing a natural
sound and words, representing a manner or image, their lexical and semantic features, communicative-pragmatic
characteristics, their derivations; general study of imitative words in the Turk and Kazakh linguistics;
morphological, semantic, syntactic peculiarities; capacities to build new words, a role in a sentence, the ways to
combine with other members of the sentence.
