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The Reflection of the Traces of Animateness/Inanimateness in the Lexico-semantic Compatibility of the Old English Substantives with the Stem-building Suffix -s-. // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2005. Issue 4 (48). P. 41-43

The analysis of the lexico-semantic compatibility of the Old English substantives united by the stem-building suffix -s- reveals the fact that originally it was a word-forming formant, serving primarily as the marker of the animated class of nouns.

The Stem-Building Suffix -s- as the Marker of Animateness (on the basis of the Old English and Old Slavic languages). // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2006. Issue 4 (55). P. 28-38

The comparative, etymological, lexico-semantic and ethno-cultural analyses of the Old Slavic substantives united by the stem-building suffix -s- reveal the fact that this ancient consonantal suffix (like in Old English) served primarily as the marker of the animated class of nouns.

THE REFLECTION OF THE CATEGORY OF ANIMATENESS / INANIMATENESS IN ANCIENT INDO-EUROPEAN SYSTEM OF NOUN DECLENSION // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2010. Issue 7 (97). P. 5-12

The ancient Indo-European system of noun declension was based on the division of substantives into groups according to the stem-building suffix. The ancient division of all objects of reality into two big classes (animated vs. inanimated) was reflected in the system of noun declension in the ancient Indo-European. The ground for grouping nouns into different types of declension was the common semantic principle of the ancient stem-building suffixes. Ancient substantives were semantically united on the basis of their treatment by the ancient people according to their role and place in the surrounding reality.

Keywords: ancient Indo-European system of noun declension, stem-building suffix, semantic principle, category of animateness / inanimateness, gender differentiation, ethnocultural importance