Abstract:
The article considers Russian nouns with the suffix -k(a) formed by means of univer- bization from adjectives - derivatives from the names of countries. On the basis of the Russian National Corpus (RNC) all meanings of these derivatives are determined, their usage frequency is counted, the time of appearance in the language is detected. The interaction of word-formation and semantic derivation in the investigated class of words is considered. The semantic subgroups of derivatives with the suffix under consideration are identified, their productivity is determined. Information from the Internet is used to confirm and supplement the data of the RNC. Comparison with the data of the dictionaries is carried out. The obtained results can be useful for lexicographers in the dictionary description of the lexico-semantic structure of the corresponding words.
