Man as the Subject of Possible/Impossible in the Russian Nominations of the Feature of the Subject

In the article, an anthropocentric approach to the analysis of factual material is realized, allowing seeing behind the units of language the work of human consciousness, view of the world, assessments and values. The object of the study is verbal adjectives formed from verbs with the help of the suffix -em-/-im-. The choice of material is because the modal component is consistently present in the semantics of these adjectives - the meaning of the possibility or impossibility of action, the subject of which is a person. On the basis of the nature of the motivating action, the semantic groups of these adjectives are distinguished, representing the spheres of interaction of a person with the world that is important for the Russian consciousness: Cognitive and speech-intellectual activity, sensory perception of the object, the physical and mental state associated with the object, ethical relations and the evaluation of the object, the forms of behavior associated with the object, the relationship of possession, the creative and goal-oriented activity of man in relation to the objects of the external world and himself. The authors consider varieties of modal semantics, characteristic of the adjectives analyzed. It is noted that the possibility/impossibility of the key subject for an action can be conditioned, firstly, by the internal potential of a person - his intellectual, physical, psychological qualities and abilities; Secondly, the prescription that is allowed and what is prohibited; Thirdly, the axiological factor-the estimated relation to the determined subject in terms of “good/bad”, “useful, appropriate/not useful, inexpedient”. In view of this factor, the adjectives of various semantic groups are related to the categories of norm and evaluation. In summary, a conclusion is made about pronounced anthropocentricity of the deverbativs with suffixes -em-/-im-, indicating that the possibility or impossibility of human interaction with the objective world is an important means of understanding objects and giving them a feature.