WORD-FORMATION SPECIFICITY OF FEMINATIVES IN RUSSIAN PROSE-SPEAK OF THE XVII CENTURY

Abstract

The article analyzes the specifics of the word-formation group of feminatives in the Russian vernacular of the 18th century. The relevance of addressing this problem is due to its inclusion in the context of comparative-historical research, which contributes to the formation of a holistic view of the dynamics of the development of this lexical group. A comparative analysis of feminitives at different stages of the development of the Russian language makes it possible to establish similar and distinctive features of the word-formation structure of the nouns belonging to this group. It has been revealed that feminitives of the 18th century are semantically more homogeneous than the modern ones. It is established that the absence in the 18th century Russian colloquialism of some derivational models, typical for word-formation of feminatives, is accounted by their absence of stylistic marking at this period of the language history. It has been proved that in the 18th century the motivation of feminitives by masculine nouns finally took shape.