Lalik Khachatryan, Lilit Khachatryan - The number-formation of adjective // noun polysemantic words in Old Armenian
12 Pages | 225-237 | Revceived on: 2020-11-25 | Reviewed on: 2021-02-26 | Accepted for printing on: 2021-06-11
Published in: 2021 N 2 (217) / Articles, reports
The number-formation patterns of noun//adjective polysemantic words depend on their structural types - simple (աջ – right, աւագ – senior, աւազակ – robber, բարբարոս – savage), derivative structures (աղանդաւոր – sectarian, ազգական – relative, գաղթական – refugee, քաղաքային – municipal, բնակիչ – inhabitant), compound (աստուածաբան – theologian, այլալեզու – foreigner, գահերէց – president, chairman, մեծամեծ – chief, ազգակից – kinsfolk, զի¬նակիր – warrior, թիկնապահ – bodyguard) and lexical meanings.
Keywordsgrammatical category of number plural form affixation polysemantic words polysemy number-formation pattern structural type number-formation affix typological indication.