GRAMMATICAL OBSERVATIONS OF D. N. KUDRYAVSKY AND MODERN RUSSIAN: ON THE DECLENSION OF UNCHANGEABLE NOUNS

The purpose of the article is to consider the observations of D. N. Kudryavsky on the declension ofloanwords with vowels in the word-final, made in the book “Introduction to Linguistics” (1912), taking into account thecurrent state of the grammatical system of the Russian language. In modern Russian, indeclinable nouns in the aspectof inflection are presented as a special grammatical norm. The increase of analytism in the grammatical system of theRussian language strengthened the position of the zero declension of noun names. At the same time, in artistic speech,the expressive using of changeable forms of such nouns is observed. In this regard, the appeal to the observations ofD. N. Kudryavsky and his comments seems relevant. The article also draws attention to the perception of changeableforms of indeclinable nouns in the second half of the XX century – the beginning of the XXI century. The assumption made at the beginning of the XX century that the changeable forms would become normative did not materialize. How-ever, D. N. Kudryavsky with his observations outlined the stylistic potential of unchangeable borrowed nouns.