Rozhavin M. Gender category in Modern Russian (functional and typological-characterological aspects).

Українська версія

Thesis for the degree of Candidate of Sciences (CSc)

State registration number

0400U001860

Applicant for

Specialization

  • 10.02.02 - Російська мова

04-07-2000

Specialized Academic Board

Д 26.172.01

O. O. Potebnia Institute of Linguistics

Essay

The thesis investigates the problem of gender category in Modern Russian. Using a method of functional-semantic analysis, for the first time two subcategories were identified in Russian: those of formal grammatical gender, and of semantic biological sex. Both subcategories are viewed as two subfields of a common functional-semantic macrofield. Elements of these two interrelated linguistic fields belong to the areas of morphology, syntax, to the text structure, word-building as well as vocabulary in the semantic field of sex. Analysis of the formal and semantic fields shows mutual relationship between extralinguistic and intralinguistic categories and grammatical forms.

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