Doctor of philological sciences, professor of the Mordvinian languages department Mordovian state pedagogical institute named after M.E. Evseyev Saransk, Russia [email protected]
Abstract. Article analyses on the material of the modern Erzya language the temporality of complex syntactic unit, points out that the static or dynamic text units that depend on the forms of verbs time and  identifi es their communicative purpose.
Keywords: complex syntactic unit, complex syntactic unit homogeneous syntactic structure, complex syntactic unit the mixed composition of syntax, temporality, predicate.