Abstract:
The article focuses on the tendencies description of the comparative and superlative forms in modern Ukrainian based on the dictionary compiled by A. Neliuba, Ye. Redko Word-Formation in Independent Ukraine. 2012–2016 (2017). The formation models favour the reinterpretation, enlarge the semantic structure of the initial words from qualitative adjectives, which nominate non-grade characteristics, from relative, compound adjectives, from nouns with the omission of the adjectivity stage, the inclination to the synthetic forms. These formation models are marked with regularity. The need to codify the correspondent tendencies, taking into account the regularity of reproduction in the Ukrainian language grammar books sources has been argumented, as well as the need to fi xate and interpret new semantic shades in lexico-graphic sources.
