RUSSIAN AND ENGLISH ADJECTIVES THROUGH THE PRISM OF COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS
Statement of the problem. The study is devoted to revealing the forms of national peculiarities of Russian and English adjectives by means of comparative-parametric method of linguistic research. An attempt to determine national peculiarity with in the aspect of lexical and lexical-grammatical polysemy is undertaken. The paper also studies communicative relevance of the sememes incorporated into semanthemes of Russian and English adjectival lexemes. Results. The national peculiarity was determined within three aspects: aspect of lexical polysemy, aspect of lexical-grammatical polysemy and communicative relevance aspect. National peculiarity of multi-sememe adjectives was qualified in accordance with the mean integral index obtained in the study. Conclusion. National peculiarities of multi-sememe Russian and English lexemes within the aspects of lexical polysemy and lexical-grammatical polysemy can qualified as noticeable. As for the aspect of communicative relevance, the peculiarity can be described as vivid. On the whole national peculiarity of Russian and English multi-sememe adjectives can be considered as moderately expressed.