THE ORIGINALITY OF TACTILE COMPLEX EPITHETS IN THE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE

Abstract

The article investigates the body of stylistic composites of the Russian literary language, characterizing tangibly perceived attribute of the object, - tactile complex epithets. The author offers a classification of composite units having attributive character on the basis of tactile perception. This article also highlights the urgent problem of the semantic shift development in tactile complex epithets. The article analyses the specifics of the way the composites function in literary texts, as well as the mechanisms of the semantic transfer which is caused by the context.