Open AccessOn the word “polusonok” (Genetivus pluralis) in the “Grifel’naja oda” (“Slate ode”) by Osip Mandel’štam
Author(s) -
Boris Uspenskij
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
slověne/slovene
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.165
H-Index - 2
eISSN - 2305-6754
pISSN - 2304-0785
DOI - 10.31168/2305-6754.2018.7.1.15
Subject(s) - ode , word (group theory) , literature , art , linguistics , philosophy
The article is concerned with the structure and the significance of the word polusonok created by O. E. Mandel’štam. The author reconstructs its derivational history and demonstrates that the word was created for expressing a plurale tantum.