THE PRINCIPLE OF ANALOGY IN GENERIC COMPLETENESS OF LOAN NOUNS (ON RUSSIAN MATERIAL) |
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2013 |
scientific article | 81'373.45 | ||
145-149 | loan word, indeclinable nouns, the grammatical category of a gender, gender variation, formal analo- gy, semantic |
The process of the generic completion of new indeclinable loan nouns is considered. The general tendency here is to attribute a new word to a particular category by analogy. This phenomenon, however, does not correspond to the specific grammatical rule concerning inanimate indeclinable nouns of neutral gender. |
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