POSSESSIVE ADJECTIVES’ FORMATION WITH SUFFIXES -*J- AND -OV-/-EV- FROM PROPER NAMES IN OLD RUSSIAN MANUSCRIPTS

The present paper is concerned with possessive adjectives, formed from personal proper names by means of suffixes -*j- и -оv-/-еv-. The research material is manuscripts of everyday and chronicle genres, as well as business style documents of the 11th–15th centuries, namely birchbark letters, the Kievan Chronicle according to the Hypatian Codex and the Synod Scroll of the Novgorod I Chronicle, the spiritual and contractual charters of the great and appanage princes. It is known that the suffix -оv-/-еv-, as one of the most productive in Old Russian, was added to the words stem of the masculine and neuter morphological gender, and the suffix -*j-, lost in the history of the Russian language, was added to the words stem of the masculine morphological gender and rarely to the basics of the feminine gender. As it turns out, in Old Russian there is one more, additional, pattern in the formation of possessive adjectives with the suffixes -*j- and -ov-/-ev-, which is as follows: from complex pre-Christian Slavic names like Borislav, as a rule, adjectives with the suf fix -*j- are formed — Borislavl’; from Christian proper names, such as Gyurgi, Oleksandr and others, there are mainly adjectives with the suffix -ov-/-ev- — Gyur gev, Oleksandrov; adjacent to this group of names are the Germanic ones Gleb, Ol’g, Rurik, from which adjectives with the suffix -ov-/-ev- are also formed — Glebov, Ol’gov, Rurikov; from truncated or hypocoristic names such as Klim, Vasil’, forma tions are found only in -ov-/-ev- — Klimov, Vasilev. Thus, in Old Russian of the 11th–15th centuries, there appears to be an additional criterion involved in the forma tion of possessive adjectives with the suffixes -*j- and -ov-/-ev- from proper names, namely the lexical-semantic.