ЛЕКСИКО-ГРАММАТИЧЕСКИЕ РАЗРЯДЫ ПРИЛАГАТЕЛЬНЫХ В ДРЕВНЕРУССКОМ ЯЗЫКЕ: К ПОСТАНОВКЕ ПРОБЛЕМЫ
LEXICAL AND GRAMMATICAL CATEGORIES OF ADJECTIVES IN THE OLD RUSSIAN LANGUAGE: SETTING OF THE PROBLEM

Author(s): Liliia Kilina
Subject(s): Lexis, Semantics, Historical Linguistics, Eastern Slavic Languages
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: Russian language, adjective; semantics; grammatical; lexical and grammatical category;
Summary/Abstract: The adjective as a class of words is characterized by its semantic, grammatical and functional heterogeneity, which is the reason for specifying a variety of classifications. The division of adjectives into lexical and grammatical categories is now recognized by many scientists as a tentative attribute. Moreover this trend is often highlighted by Russian language teachers at schools while revealing students’ challenges of determining categories of adjectives. There is no consensus among experts on the number of these categories, and most importantly – the principles of their allocation. The development of categories of Russian adjectives seems to be even more challenging issue. One could hardly find references to this process in the scientific literature, although, of course, some observations on this topic can be found in textbooks on the historical grammar of the Russian language, as well as in articles with reflections on the connection between the semantics of the adjective and its category, while the grammatical features of the adjectives remain unaddressed. Due to the fact that the content plane always depends on the expression plane, the description of both the lexical and grammatical categories can not be realized through the analysis of either only the content or only the formal side of the linguistic units. The purpose of our study is to determine the bulk of lexical and grammatical (word-formative, morphological, syntactic) factors supporting the differences between groups of adjectives in the Old Russian language.

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