Article

Name: The meaning of ‘imitation’ in the modern Russian language

Authors: Tashlykova Marina Borisovna

Irkutsk State University, Irkutsk, Russian Federation

In the section Linguistics

Abstract: The present paper investigates the phenomenon of derivational redundancy in the domain of the formation of nomina abstracta, certain peculiarities of Russian words expressing the meaning of ‘imitation’ as well as the reasons of the coexistence of several abstract nouns within the same word family.

Keywords: syntactic derivation, semantics of deverbative and deadjectival abstract nouns, functioning of nomina abstracta

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