Functional Shift of Present and Past Participles from Nominal Meaning to Adjectival Meaning

This paper tackles in detail the functional shift of parts of speech, such as the shift of a verbal clause to an adjectival clause, along with the types of such a shift. The researcher identified the important features of participles, as well as the concept of participles, adjectives, and their types. Also, the most important changes that affect the participles during such shifts.Further, an exposition is made of the different producers through which a verbal clause is changed into an adjectival one in Russian. This type of functional shift in parts of speech is seen as a process ofderiving most of the new words in contemporary Russian. Russian is very rich in new words, whether by way of processes of derivation or by borrowing and acclimatization of foreign words, or by making a functional shift of a certain part of speech into another; or, by other ways which would contribute to add to the stockpile of Russian words.