THE PROCESS OF FORMING AN ABSTRACT VOCABULARY WITH A BOUND RADIX (USING THE EXAMPLE OF THE RADIX *IM)

Abstract

The article is devoted to a problem of formation of abstract vocabulary with a bound radix. The identification of the whole complex of causes, the interdependence of which led to the emergence of such morphemes, is possible only with a diachronic approach to the study of this phenomenon. It is the history of the language that is rich in illustrative material, the consideration of which makes it possible to explain those features that are characteristic of the modern state of the language. The article considers the process of formation of connectivity on the example of a aspectual pair vnjat’ – vnimat’. The basis for the study is the data of explanatory historical dictionaries. As a result of studying the formation of vocabulary with the bound radix *im, significant phonetic transformations are revealed that changed the graphic appearance of the root, as well as semantic shifts that led to the death of specific meanings of the studied lexeme and de-etymologization. A single etymological nest survived the collapse.