Publication details
K t. naz. kategorii ženskosti v russkom jazyke
| Title in English | The "Femine" Category in Russian and Czech |
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| Authors | |
| Year of publication | 2003 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Acta Facultatis Philosophicae Universitatis Prešoviensis. Zborník príspekov z medzinárodnej vedeckej konferencie Hĺadanie ekviovalentnosti 1. |
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| Citation | |
| Field | Linguistics |
| Keywords | "femine" category universal linguistic category word-formation process gender pairs word-formative process derivation of feminine forms productive process in a historical perspectiveneologism coloquial speech |
| Description | The category "femine" is a universal linguistic category. In Russian and Czech this category is marked on nouns that areused in naming individuals through the word-formation process. Russian does not derive feminine forms from masculina nouns but uses nouns as universal forms, i. e. the same noun indicates individuals of both genders. The derivation of feminine forms from masculine animate masculine nouns is much more widespread in Czech than it is in Russian and has remained a productive process in historical perspective. The large number of neologism in contemporary Russian (especially in coloquial speech) using suffixes to indicate the feminine shows that the derivation of feminine forms from masculine nouns is becoming a productive process in Russian. |