Abstract
The Obratnyj slovar' russkogo jazyka (1974) lists approximately 500 adjectives that end in -lyj and another 27 or so that end in -loj. It is obvious that this group is not homogenous. It includes adjectives such as veselyj, belyj, malyj, bespalyj, kruglyj, and xudotelyj which are not derived from verbs. It also includes adjectives such as giblyj, bleklyj, puxlyj, kislyj, merzlyj and the prefixed ones, pogiblyj, pobleklyj, opuxlyj, raspuxlyj, perekislyj, zamerzlyj, obmerzlyj, and vymerzlyj. These adjectives have related verbs in Russian, e.g., gibnut\ bleknut', puxnut\ merznut\ etc., but it seems that they are not productively derived from verbs. Finally, there are adjectives such as zakostenelyj, okamenelyj, osatanelyj and zalezalyj, which have closely related verbs: zakostenet\ okamenet\ osatanet\ etc. The 1-adjective is described as a productive type of adjective formation both by the Academy Grammar of 1970 and that of 1980.1 Although the latter claims that verbs which motivate this class of adjectives may be both perfective and imperfective, the truly productive class of 1-adjectives, according to Vinogradov (1972, 180) derives only from prefixed perfective verbs which are intransitive :
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