POTENTIAL VARIABILITY WORD CREATIVE GAMES
The article is devoted to the study of the potential of semantic variability of a derivative word in the Russian language and the relevance of this resource in linguistic-creative activity. An independent problem is the formation of the ability to read the potential semantics of a word (including gaming) in the process of school education. The subject of the article is the word-making games, formed according to productive models in the aspect of their perception by children. The results of an experiment aimed at identifying the ability of younger schoolchildren to semantize word-formation innovations, and the discovery of factors contributing to the potential variability of such semantization are presented. As the obtained material shows, the students were able to uncover the meanings of the neoplasms, relying not only on the harmony, phonetic similarity of the innovation being identified with the familiar words, but also on the analysis of the material value of the root and the derivational value of the affix, “considering” the fact that the semantic structure of the derived word is determined by the value of its constituent parts. The results of the experiment showed that in the linguistic consciousness of students of primary school age (in most cases), the correlation of the meaning of a word with a particular suffix in its structure has already been formed, and knowledge of the “thematic specialization” of words with this formant in familiar words helps the child determine the meaning of the unknown word as a whole. At the same time, the experiment reveals factors of potential variability of word-making games.