The article is devoted to the problem of semantic word-formation in thehistory of the Russian language. Considering the way in which secondary language signs are formed, it is possible to speak about the semantic derivation with reference to the final period of semantic syncretism in the history of Russian (end of the 14th century).
Compound words are known in the Russian language since the first written texts of different genre and stylistic characteristics. The formation of composites was carried out in two productive ways: by the non-morphological semantic method of fusion and by morphological addition. Within both methods (in literary texts) the calques of Greek composites and the development of East Slavic word formations in their sample are also noted. Both methods were interrelated, and an interaction of derivatives occurred in their sphere.
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