Occasional word formation of nouns in Novgorod letters in 11th-15th centuries
The article discusses unusual for the ancient word formation system methods word formation in Novgorod birch bark manuscripts and official documents of Novgorod the Great in the 11th-15th centuries. Nouns with suffixes in Novgorod manuscripts of the 11th-15th centuries that are rare in terms of productivity, that acquire individual value, which contrasts in its functionality with general derivational situation the ancient Rus’, serve as the object of study. Non-morphological mode, namely, the lexical-semantic one, which used to convert the lexical meaning of the word and made its grammatical status changed with time, this mode of word formation is becoming the main way of changing the relationship between the derivative and producing. In addition to the lexical-semantic, in Novgorod manuscripts of the 11th-15th centuries were also used traditional morphological methods of word derivation, the most common of which is suf- fixation, which also has unique features in the separate northwestern region of the ancient Rus’. The study of individual examples of derivatives suffixed nouns is accompanied by the lexical-semantic, structural and grammatical analysis of words that belong to the same type of derivation. The revealed individual characteristics of occasional derivation of nouns in Novgorod manuscripts the 11th-15th centuries give a general idea of the nature of derivational system of Novgorod the Great of the 11th-15th centuries and supplement information about the entire of the Ancient Rus’ derivational and grammatical tradition of that period.