No. 75 (2018): Southern Archive (philological sciences)
Ukrainian language and literature

THE WORD-BUILDING TYPES OF ABSTRACT NOUNS WITH SUFFIX -Б(А), -ОБ(А) IN ANCIENT UKRAINIAN LANGUAGE OF THE 11TH–13TH CENTURIES

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  • Т. SIROSHTAN
Т. SIROSHTAN

Published 2018-09-24

Keywords

  • Old Slavonic language,
  • Ancient Russian-Ukrainian language,
  • lexical and word-forming type,
  • formant,
  • suffix

Abstract

The origin of the suffix -b(a) was considered in the article; the peculiarities of its functioning in the Proto-Slavonic and ancient Russian-Ukrainian languages have been clarified; its role in the formation of the word-building structure of abstract nouns of this epoch is defined; it is proved that in the XI–XIII centuries there were processes of decreasing the productivity of this formant, its valence was limited mainly to verbal generative bases.

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