Adjectival Comparatives and Superlatives in Slavic Belles-Lettres: Functional, Stylistic and Comparative Aspects

Characteristics of a particular language phonetics, vocabulary, grammar and morphology are being indicated in dictionaries and textbooks. Books written in the literary language are being published, central media provide information in it , and in art national language often emphasizes the identity of culture, its dissimilarity to cultures of other regions. However, in the discourse, there may be a mixture of grammatical models, their borrowing from neighboring languages, as a result of which grammatical forms acquire new connotations and new meanings or completely lose their original ones. At the same time, the language retains both the old forms, constructed according to the unproductive or dead-end models, and the new forms. A stylistic and historical comparison of models that are common to the adjective categories of degrees of comparison and subjective esteem within the languages ​​of one group is to find out how these models work in the literary language and colloquial speech, as well as to understand how and why their semantics affects the development of erroneous uses.