The Stem-Building Suffix -s- as the Marker of Animateness (on the basis of the Old English and Old Slavic languages).

Kovalenko N. S.

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The comparative, etymological, lexico-semantic and ethno-cultural analyses of the Old Slavic substantives united by the stem-building suffix -s- reveal the fact that this ancient consonantal suffix (like in Old English) served primarily as the marker of the animated class of nouns.

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Issue: 4, 2006

Series of issue: Humanities (Philology: Indo-European and Siberian languages)

Rubric: Indo-European Languages

Pages: 28 — 38

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