MATERIAL NOUNS UNDER A SEMANTIC MICROSCOPE: EXERCISES FOR CLASSES IN MODERN RUSSIAN

The article presents a system of partial meanings material nouns, which are most clearly realized in plural forms, uncharacteristic for this lexical and grammatical category. ban on the formation forms abstract nouns denoting continual substances (substances, states, actions, processes) Russian language recent decades has been violated with enviable regularity. appeared as result semantic transformations, concretization subsequent terminology meanings, smoothly move from special scientific discourse due to modern fiction, advertising, media, no longer seem be something unusual. purpose is create holistic view paradigm through consideration individual meanings. addressed readers who teach or study morphology language, translation text, style speech at advanced levels (B1, B2). will interest teachers foreign especially those working students Southeast Asia, since there category numbers number languages these countries. analyzed illustrated contexts taken National Corpus Language, Internet sources.