The Indeclinable Nouns in Russian Language (Theoretical and historical problems)

Abstract

This article gives a brief discussion of the origin and categorisation rules of the indeclinable nouns in Russian. The grammatical features of the indeclinable nouns demonstrates itself not in morphology but in its collocations with the other parts of the sentences. The analysis of the indeclinable nouns helps to understand and differentiate the sentence elements of Language Isolate.