Gradual Transition of Nominative and Accusative Cases of Nouns into Quantitative Adverbs: A Study of Word Forms ‘chudo’ [mir]

The relevance of the work is due to the insufficient degree of study of the transition zone between nouns and adverbs formed by the mechanism of stepwise adverbialization of substantive word forms. The purpose of the study is to show the stages, features and limit of stepwise transposition of nouns into quantitative adverbs using the example of prepositionless forms of the nominative / accusative case of nouns. It is shown that such substantive word forms as ‘ horror’, ‘fear’, ‘zhut’, ‘passion’, ‘death’ are transposed stepwise into the subclass of adverbs of measure and degree in different types of contexts. The article substantiates the idea that the degree of their convergence with quantitative adverbs is associated with different stages of proper grammatical (functional) and functional-semantic adverbialization. It is noted that the word form ‘chudo’ is capable of reaching only the stage of peripheral adverbials functioning in the semantic zone of the original substantive lexemes during functional adverbialization. The syntagmatic determinacy of its adverbial use by the obligatory combination with hybrid formations of the type ‘kak’, ‘kakoy’, ‘chto za’ and some others is revealed. The possibility of a dual categorical interpretation of the formation ‘chudo’ explicating the hybridity zone on the transitivity scale in typical contexts is demonstrated.