Astra Salvensis (Jul 2019)
THE GROWTH OF AGGLUTINATIVITY IN THE WORD-FORMATION SYSTEM OF THE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE
Abstract
The growth of agglutinativity in the semantics of the derived word is manifested in the elimination of the ambiguity of word-formation morphemes and thus in an increase in the number of morphemes, always characterized by the same value. This is most clearly expressed in the prefixed way of producing names. Many prefixes, both Russian (раз-, со-, сверх-) and borrowed (анти-, архи-, ультра-), are distinguished by the unity of meaning in combination with the fundamentals of different semantics and even different parts of speech. In the language of the 20th century, there is a significant increase in the productivity of this way of formation in the system of nouns and adjectives. The number of suffixing morphemes, which have a single meaning and are combined with strictly defined fundamentals, is also increasing. Many young, actively developing word-formation types are formed by borrowed affixes. The growth of agglutinativity in the formation of a verb is seen mainly in the activation of the prefixal method, which plays an incomparably greater role in the verb system than in the formation of names. On the contrary, suffixes in the verb system are distinguished by inflectionality, cohesion with inflectional morphemes.
