Female Space in Olena Pchilka’s Story “Tovaryshky” (“Schoolmates”): Semantic and Word-Forming Aspects

The article is dedicated to the issue of studying the female space in Olena Pchilka’s story “Tovaryshky” (“Schoolmates”). The article reflects a synchronous slice of the historical development of the subsystem of women’s names in the post-Shevchenko period of the second half of the 19th century. The author argues that this issue is timely, relevant, and promising. The feminitives outlined in works by S. Bevzenko, M. Brus, S. Semeniuk, O. Taranenko and others. The purpose of this paper is to study the lexical semantic peculiarities and structural word-forming features of feminitives in the story “Tovaryshky” (“Schoolmates”). In order to achieve the purpose, the following tasks were competed: the characteristics of lexical semantics and the structural word-formation features of feminitives in Olena Pchilka’s story “Tovaryshky” (“Schoolmates”) were studied, and the factors of contribute to their formation were researched. Metodology. The paper uses such general scientific research methods as analysis and synthesis, induction and deduction, observation, functional and descriptive methods, elements of morphemic and derivational analysis. Results. The derivation of feminitives is a main trend development of the modern Ukrainian language in the post-Shevchenko period (the second half of the 19th century). Conclusions. The consideration of the lexical-semantic and structural-derivational specificity of feminitives in the story “Tovaryshky” (“Schoolmates”) by Olena Pchilka, and the analysis of the reasons for their emergence confirmed that the main factor driving this process was the surge of the national-patriotic movement in Ukraine, a significant part of which consisted of the feminist wave.