THE DYNAMICS OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF POSSESSIVE ADJECTIVES WITH THE SUFFIX -IN- IN RUSSIAN (ACCORDING TO LEXICOGRAPHIC SOURCES)

Abstract

The article is the first to analyze the main stages of the development of the group of possessive adjectives with the suffix -in- in the course of the historical evolution of the Russian language. The authors consider the evolution of the word-formation type from the 11th century to the present day taking into account the morphemic and semantic derivation. In the Old Russian language the semantic center of adjectives with this suffix is the meaning of belonging, which, under the influence of a competing derivational type with the suffix -ov-, faded over time contributing to the transition of possessive adjectives to other categories. The productivity of the word-formation type with this suffix has been proved, the specificity of semantic derivation based on possessive adjectives has also been established, as a result of which they move from one category to another: metaphorical transformations lead to a transition to the category of qualitative ones, metonymic transformations – to the category of relative ones.