On the question of the transition of nouns to predicatives

the article analyzes the issues of the transition of nouns into predicatives. Words of the category of state are actively formed from prepositional and case forms of nouns. The studied group of words is heterogeneous. Nouns in various case forms, nouns with prepositions, passing into predicatives, acquire the meaning of the category of state, characteristics, evaluation. They also freeze in a certain form, which is assigned the function of the predicate. The same factors apply here as when nouns in the nominative case are transformed into predicatives. However, their manifestations have their own specifics. The transformation of nouns in the form of the nominative case into predicatives is facilitated by such factors as semantic separation from the paradigm and fixation in the function of the predicate. All these factors do not act in isolation, the effect of any factor is necessarily supported by others. Predicatives should be distinguished from the prepositional forms of the noun as a predicate. With all this, it is important to keep in mind that the word retains traces of the part of speech from which it came for a long time.

predicatives, noun, two-part sentence, lexico-grammatical category, syntactic constructions, predicate, parts of speech, sentence, semantic shift