Let's say! with Alexander Khaburgiev" at 10:35 on Radio Russia.
True, it's different, it's nice. OTA extension revival.
Irina Popaeva: "If we delve into the distant linguistic past, the suffix -ota was not collective. It was a suffix that forms nouns, including qualitative abstract nouns - beauty, height. Poverty is also included in this list and the literal meaning was poverty, Mendeleev wrote: the poverty of our universities in the 90th century, but already in the 90th century. The suffix -ota acquired a figurative meaning, poor - poor, this is the life of the suffix as a collective.
In the middle of the last century, the twentieth, academician Viktor Vasilevich Vinogradov wrote that the suffix - Uta had lost its productivity. But after the 1990s it was resurrected, and in our time it has not become a figurative-collective suffix, but simply collective. Boredom, lateness, cuteness, stupidity, lateness. This is how the collective expressive suffix -ota appeared in the language. ".
Program expert: Irina Popaeva - leading researcher at the Sociolinguistics Laboratory at the Russian State University for the Humanities.
Presenter: Alexander Khaburgiev.
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