indeclinable inanimate nouns of foreign origin, morphological gender, principles of determining morphological gender, morphological gender variations, Russian language, Czech language

Statja posvjaschena problematike kategorii morfologicheskogo roda u nesklonyayemych neodushevlennykh suschestvitelnykh inoyazychnogo proischozhdeniya i principakh opredeleniya roda etikh suschestvitelnykh v russkom yazyke v proshlom i segodnya.

The present article deals with the issue concerning the category of morphological gender of indeclinable inanimate nouns borrowed from foreign languages and the principles of determining gender of such indeclinable Russian borrowings in the past and at present. The morphological gender variations of several thematic groups of indeclinable nouns in contemporary Russian (sports terminology, the names of languages, monetary units, dances and violins created by Italian violin makers) are demonstrated on the example of various dictionaries. The given thematic groups of indeclinable Russian nouns are compared with their Czech counterparts and morphological categories.