Back-wordformation in the history of the Russian language

Dobrodomov Igor G., Kamchatnov Alexander M.

the article critically examines the model of non-affixing word formation and the hypothesis that such nouns with the meaning of abstract action as vygul, otžim, nagar, posyl are formed by the so-called zero-affixation, and also substantiated the hypothesis of the origin of these words by back-wordformation in the history of the Russian language.

Keywords:history of the Russian language, back-wordformation, word-formation relation, zero suffix, semantics of abstract action, synchrony, diachrony.