Rol' rodovogo poniatia (giperonima) pri opredelenii roda nesklonajemyh neoduschevlennyh suschestvitelnyh

• Authors: Ivanka Atanasova

Title variants

EN

The role of hypernyms for determining the grammatical gender of undeclinable inanimate nouns in Russian

• Languages of publication: RU

Abstracts

EN

In this paper, we study the role of hypernyms in determining the grammatical gender of inanimate indeclinable words in modern Russian. We further try to outline thematic groups of nouns whose grammatical gender is determined by hypernyms. The grammatical genders of corresponding hypernyms can determine the genders of indeclinable nouns for various thematic groups that are related to different areas of human life and the environment. The hypernym determining the grammatical gender of borrowed indeclinable nouns may be absent from the interpretation of hyponyms, but it is implied. Within a given thematic group, indeclinable inanimate nouns can be both masculine and feminine in gender. However, there are some thematic groups within which all nouns are either only masculine (e.g., names of languages, winds, seasons, grapes, weapons, musical voices, months and days) or only feminine (e.g., names of songs, diseases).

Keywords

EN

Grammatical gender; a generic term; hypernym; hyponym; indeclinable noun; inanimate noun; thematic group

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Opolski
• Journal: Studia Slavica
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 18
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 85-98

Contributors

author

Ivanka Atanasova

• Russistics Department, Faculty of Philology, St. Cyril and St. Methodius University of Veliko Turnovo
• Theodossy Turnovski Str, Veliko Turnovo