2021 # 4 (48)
Mamechkov S.G.
‘Masha shila plat’e…’ ‒ Some Facts on Lexical Indicators of the Semantics of Biological Sex in Russian
Abstract
The article deals with the lexical means expressing the biological sex semantics in Russian. Nouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs may carry information on the denotatum of the semantically related noun. According to the National corpus of Russian language a set of such relevant lexemes and the statistical probability of their male and female markedness is established. Also the statistical probability of their male and female markedness in accordance with the modern Russian lexical minimum is determined.
Key words
the semantic-functional field of sexus, lexical means, the National corpus of Russian language, predicate function, attribute function, the relationship between subject and predicate
