RUSSIAN ADJECTIVES ENDING IN -ОВАТЫЙ /-ЕВАТЫЙ: PECULIARITIES OF DERIVATIONAL SEMANTICS
The paper discusses the peculiarities of derivative adjectives ending in -оватый/-еватый, which are an important method for expressing the intensity category of traits in modern Russian, and gives an overview of the most significant works on this topic. The paper classifies the studied array of derivatives into the word formation types and thoroughly describes the dominant type in derivational and semantic aspects. Having analyzed the lexical semantics of modifiers with the suffix -оват-, we can conclude that qualitative adjectives of eleven lexical-semantic groups are used as productive bases for the studied type of word formation in modern Russian. Based on the data from the Russian National Corpus, we drew a conclusion that in Russian, the adjectives of the studied type of word formation, denoting a color attribute, have the greatest functional activity. The article identifies the factors, preventing the formation of modified units with the suffix -оват-, based on any lexemes within these motivating classes or their individual lexical-semantic variants: positive-evaluative semantics of productive bases, their terminological character and the expression of absolute evaluation. Further research is aimed at analyzing the functional properties of adjectives with the suffix -оват- in modern Russian.