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Abstract. The article examines the dynamics and semantics of the prepositional case form with the derivative preposition в отличие от (as opposed to) in the literary works of the Russian writers of the XIX-XXI centuries. The paper aims to show that the derivative prepositions formed in the scientific, publicistic and other bookish styles, gradually, though with delay, penetrate into the fiction. The author discovers the growth of the analyzed prepositional case form in the literary works of the XX-XXI centuries and the growth in the diversity of features according to which the writers distinguish the humans from each other, and later on - from inanimate objects.

Key words and phrases: производные предлоги, предложно-падежная форма, динамика формы с предлогом "в отличие", русская художественная литература, объекты сравнения, признаки отличия людей, развитие семантики формы, derivative prepositions, prepositional case form, dynamics of the form with the preposition в отличие от (as opposed to), Russian fiction, objects of comparison, distinctive features of the people, developing the semantics of a form