DEFINITIONS OF THE CONCEPT "ADJECTIVE" IN THE GRAMMAR OF THE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE OF THE SECOND HALF OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
The material of the most authoritative editions of grammars of the Russian language of the second half of the nineteenth century makes an attempt to answer the question whether a common generally accepted definition of the name of the adjective as part of speech is formed in modern linguistics. An analysis of the sources showed that such a definition was not created. With rare exceptions, scientists have not been able to correlate the definition of the concepts «Parts of speech» and «Adjective». The definition of the name of the adjective as part of speech is guided only by a group of qualitative adjectives. It is noted that traditional grammars absorbed the undeniable achievements that linguistic science owes to the formal grammars of the second half of the last century. The combination of both grammars is particularly noticeable in school grammar, and the evidence of such a fruitful interaction is, in particular, the modern definition of the name of the adjective in the school textbook of the Russian language.