Derivational slots of parametric adjectives: Cognitive aspect

Abstract

This paper realized a new, modern approach to the study of a substantive aspect of the studied linguistic structures: correlative derivational slots are considered in the cognitive aspect, and also from the point of view of a language consciousness of certain linguistic culture carriers - Russian or English one. The current actual interest to the content of the word-formation processes, the analysis of the derivational-semantic space of a language allow to obtain the information about some features of nominative-cognitive activity of a man, namely to specify the structure of knowledge embedded in a derivative word. The comparative analysis ofe Russian and English derivational slots of parametric adjectives allows you to determine the ways of development and modification concerning the dimensional characteristics of objects in the acts of word formation, as well as to identify the national specifics of the derivationalnominative space of each of the slots.