Zhong X. Adjectival Colourative and its Word-Building Paradigm in Modern Russian Language.

The object is the Russian adjectival colouratives with the sign of color and their word-building derivatives - the first derivatives. The aims is to classificate the Russian adjectival colouratives , construction and the description of system of their paradigmatic classes. Methods - descriptive and a method of linguistic experiment. Two sets have been singled out from the list of the adjectives with the meaning of colour, according to four formal criteria (qualitativeness, changeability, polyfunctionality, semantic dominant). They are the set of fundamental colouratives and the set of basic colouratives. The basic colouratives act as semantic dominants of eleven synonymic rows, according to which all adjectives, denoting colour, are distributed. The system of word-building meanings of adjectival colouratives has been defined. The notion of motivating class and the notion of word-building paradigm class have been introduced, and all basic colouratives are distributed into these classes depending on thequantity and character of the derivatives, having been formed from basic colouratives of word-building meanings. A part of such meanings is replenished by the derivatives from components of corresponding synonymic rows. Six word-building paradigm classes of the Russian adjectival colourative have been formed, and the vector with the set of word-building meanings is correlated to each of these classes. Sphere of use is training courses.