Functioning of Collective Substantives in Modern Ukrainian Prose.

Abstract

The qualification work examines the functioning of collective nouns at the lexical, word-forming, morphological levels of the Ukrainian language; it is shown that a significant part of the studied nouns functions in the prose of modern Ukrainian authors as implementers of the suffixless expression of collectivity (lexical level); it is established that the word-forming level of the category of collectivity is represented by Ukrainian and sometimes foreign-language affixes, and the morphological level is fixed due to the peculiarities of using only the singular form.