Vestnik of Samara University. History, pedagogics, philologyVestnik of Samara University. History, pedagogics, philology2542-04452712-8946Samara National Research University413110.18287/2542-0445-2015-21-11-17-21UnknownEVALUATIVE SUFFIXES OF СOMMON NOUNS IN THE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE OF THE XI–XVII CENTURIES (ON THE BASIS OF LEXICOGRAPHICAL DATA)VekolovaA. Yu.morenovsv@ssau.ruhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-1825-0097Samara State University01112015211117212403201724032017Copyright © 2015, Vekolova A.Y.2015<h4>The article presents the system of evaluative suffixes of nouns in the Russian language of the XIXVII centuries, and shows the main sources of its research. Morphological and semantic characteristics of affixes are investigated at the diachronic level, semantic transformations of word-formational suffix morphemes are traced, their frequency and productivity are determined. Special attention is paid to the analysis of interpretation of evaluative meanings of suffixes in the national linguistics; the article explores the fundamental question of evaluative nature of diminutive suffixes to which there is no uniform answer, views on this question suggested by linguists are compared.</h4>лексикографические источники, диахро- ния, субстантивное словообразование, суффиксы оценочной семантики[1. Sreznevskii I.I. Materials for the dictionary of the old Russian language in the written records:][in 3 volumes. SPb., Izdanie Otdeleniia russkogo iazyka i slovesnosti Imperatorskoi AN, 1893, vol.][1, 1420 p. [in Russian].][2. Sreznevskii I.I. Materials for the dictionary of the old Russian language in the written records:][in 3 volumes. SPb, Izdanie Otdeleniia russkogo iazyka i slovesnosti Imperatorskoi AN, 1902, vol.][2, 1802 p. [in Russian].][3. Sreznevskii I.I. Materials for the dictionary of the old Russian language in the written records:][in 3 volumes. SPb., Izdanie Otdeleniia russkogo iazyka i slovesnosti Imperatorskoi AN, 1912, vol.][3, 1684 p. [in Russian].][4. Zalizniak A.A. Mechanisms of expressivity in the language. Meanings, texts and other exciting][stories. M., IaSK, 2012, pp. 650–664 [in Russian].][5. Vinogradov V.V. Russian language (Grammatical doctrine of the word). 4th ed. M., Russkii][iazyk, 2001, 720 p. [in Russian].][6. Zemskaia E.A. Modern Russian language. Word-formation: textbook. 4th ed. M., Flinta: Nauka,][2007, 328 p. [in Russian].][7. Potikha Z.A. Modern Russian word-formation. Textbook for a teacher. M., Prosveshchenie,][1970, 384 p. [in Russian].][8. Starikova G.N. Opposition between form and content in the nouns with evaluative suffixes][(on the material of Siberian business writing of the XVII century). Russkoe slovo v istoricheskom][razvitii (XIV–XIX veka) [Historical evolution of the Russian word (XIV–XIX centuries)], SPb.,][2012, issue 6, pp. 108–112 [in Russian].]