WORD-FORMING FORMANT IN THE ASPECT OF NOMINATION SPECIFICS OF NATURAL FACTS (BASED ON THE MATERIAL OF RUSSIAN DIALECT DERIVATIVES WITH THE SUFFIX -USH/A)

Abstract

The modern multicultural space is the result of globalization processes at all levels of human activity. However, the combination of trends for unification gives rise to the interest of scientists in studying the language in the aspect of its functional characteristics as the way for forming an ethno-cultural community. Dialects are a special subsystem of the language, which has its own unique units for the process of nominating persons, artifacts and natural facts of the surrounding reality. The word-forming formant -ush/a, due to its sphere of functioning, is a linguistic unit that is used by native speakers of the dialect for an alternative method of creating nouns denoting plants, animals, and fish. Derived words with this suffix represent the value paradigm, verbalized through the actual qualities of objects for a person: taste, color, shape, place of growth and functional properties. Using dialect-derived vocabulary with the archaic suffix, which is currently not used in literary Russian, allows to describe the cognitive processes of language creativity of the Russian-speaking people in the aspect of its characteristic and unique features.