Семантическое разнообразие суффиксальных наименований лиц мужского пола в русском языке XVII века

Abstract

In the article the author analyses semantics of personal nouns of masculine gender, derived with the help of productive as well as unproductive suffixes in the 17th-century Russian language. The main attention is paid to the variety of meaning of personal nouns by dividing them into different semantic groups. What is more, the author presents several cases of lexicalization of described nouns and, when possible, gives examples of using them both in their primary and secondary meaning.