Abstract:
The paper is dedicated to one of the topical issues of the modern linguistics - aesthetical resources of the linguistic units used in the fiction literature. However, this issue still remains under investigated and disputable. The morphologic category of the substantive gender has also been not completely covered from the perspective of description of its aesthetical capacities which determined our reference to this problematic. The literary works of the 19<sup>th</sup>-20<sup>th</sup> centuries were used as the material for analysis. As the main linguistic methods we used: the descriptive-analytical, semantic-stylistic, distributive, method of component analysis. During the study the author's interpretation of the aesthetic potential of linguistic units has been developed suggesting orientation towards the aesthetical as the most common, comprehensive category of aesthetics. On the basis of this concept the aesthetic options of the grammar gender of substantives have been studied. The aspects of analysis of substantive lexemes as aesthetically-relevant elements of a literary text have been specified. There were determined the factors existing in the language that facilitate the fulfillment of the aesthetic potencies of the grammar gender of substantives. The results obtained confirm: aesthetic resources of the gender category are rather wide and various, substantives considered from the perspective of the relevant grammar attribute are used not only as constructional elements of a text but also as linguistic means participating in formation of the basic categories of a literary work as a complete aesthetic object.
