On the Russian adverb chut' with the meaning of extremely low degree of intensification

The article discusses combinability peculiarities of the adverb chut’ in the meaning of an extremely low degree of intensification. The focus is made on its combinability with qualitative adjectives, participles, adverbs, adverbs, the meanings of which are perceived at the physical level, i.e. visually, tactilely, audibly, etc.; as well as with qualitative adjectives and adverbs with a neutral meaning, including the contextual ones; and with qualitative adjectives, participles, adverbs, the negative meaning of which, from the point of view of the subject of evaluation, does not affect their neutral perception. The difference between the valency characteristics of the adverb chut’ and the valency characteristics of other adverbs with the same meaning is accounted for by their semantics, etymology, as well as by many other factors in the native speakers’ minds. The adverbs, subjected to the analysis were selected from lexicographic and textual sources. The relevance of the study is determined by the fact that adverbs of a low degree of feature intensification represent a poorly developed area in Russian grammar. In the course of the research, a set of theoretical and empirical methods have been applied in the work, among them are linguistic analysis, lexico-semantic analysis, contextual analysis.