LEXICAL AND GRAMMATICAL SYSTEM OF EXPRESSION OF PLURALITY IN MODERN RUSSIAN

Abstract

The article presents various forms of expression of the meaning of a variety of subjects in modern Russian in a form of a certain system. The work describes typological characteristics of means of expressing plurality. The researchers analyze the influence of the meaning of plurality of verbs of certain ways of verbal action on the quantitative characteristics of the subject and object of action and the ways of its expression in modern Russian. Plurality is represented in the paper as a nominative grammatical inflection value, which shows that the grammatical value of plural names is used to implement the meaning of a group, separative, indefinite set. The cases of conjugation of formal plurality with the meaning of singularity are considered, when the meaning of plurality can be expressed by grammatical formations of the singular of collective nouns, as well as collective and real nouns that convey the idea of a set through their lexical meaning. The object of the research is ways of expressing the category of plurality in modern Russian.