FEATURES OF THE FORMATION OF FEMINITIVES DERIVED FROM NOMINA AGENTIS IN -ΤΗΡ, -ΤΩΡ, -ΤΗΣ IN ANCIENT GREEK

This article examines the formation of feminitives from nomina agen tis with the suffixes -τήρ, -τωρ, -της in Ancient Greek with the derivational suffixes -τειρα, -τρια, -τρίς, -τορίς and -τις. The research material is collected during work with the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG) corpus, as well as with dictionar ies of Ancient Greek. During the collection of material we use the continuous sam pling method and carry out the contextual, morphological and semantic field analysis of lexemes. The first part of the study provides a brief description of the features of the formation of nomina agentis with the suffixes -τήρ, -τωρ, -της, the second part of the article is devoted to the feminine suffixes -τειρα and -τρια, derived from the Indo-European formant –yă, the third part examines the suffixes -τρίς,— τορίς and -τις, included in the group of formants with the consonant -d-. In addition to the analysis of the formation of feminine lexemes in the Ancient Greek, we give a brief outline of changes in the productivity of the feminine suffixes in diachrony. In conclusion, we draw the inference that the initial word-formation models have changed due to the features of a particular dialect, and also as a result of a decrease in the productivity of such masculine suffixes as -τηρ, -τωρ and feminine suffixes -τειρα, -τρίς, -τορίς and -τις in Hellenistic koine.