WORD-FORMING MEANS OF EXPRESSING EVALUATION IN RUSSIAN (BASED ON THE MATERIAL OF EMOTIONAL AND EVALUATIVE NAMES OF A PERSON)

Abstract

The article deals with word-forming means of expressing evaluative meaning based on the material of nouns-names of a person. Word-formation analysis of emotional and evaluative names of a person allowed to identify non-substantive, verbal and subjective derivatives with suffixes of subjective assessment. As a result of the research, their word-formation features are established. It is noted that these suffix formations convey a variety of shades of meaning, and some of them, depending on the context, can express both a positive and negative assessment. The author concludes that a catch-up analysis of emotional and appraisal names of the person makes it possible to identify derivative names of the person producing their bases, suffixes of subjective evaluation, which participate in the formation of appraisal names. The material in the article shows that there is no uniformity in the interpretation of the person’s appraisal names in the dictionaries.