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On non-uniqueness of solutions in historic-etymological researchThe author discusses the origin of the Ukrainian dialectal word копирдан (as found in J. Rieger’s A Lexical Atlas of the Hutsul Dialects of the Ukrainian Language, Warszawa 1996) hypothetically related to the Common Slavic *koprъ and its derivates denoting nettle. The problem of establishing this word’s origin illustrates some important...
The role of terms-indirect nominations in the thesaurus of information retrieval system of the Slavic linguisticsThe article examines some of the problems of modern information retrieval systems in the Slavic studies, in particular, one of the most representative – Bibliographic Database World Slavonic Linguistics, created in the Institute of Slavic Studies of PAS under the leadership of Dr. Z. E...
Ukrainian authors’ terminology in the iSybislaw system (verb)The problem of authors’ terminology is well-known to all iSybislaw developers. It inevitably forces them to find a compromise between their desire to represent the content of a document as fully as possible and the need to protect the system from being cluttered with non-standard terminology.Recent publications in the journal Ukrainska...
Accentual parallelism between verbs suffixed with -і- // -ію- / -іє- and -и- // -ю- / -я- / -и-The article presents an attempt to identify the pattern according to which pairs of common-rooted verbs ending with -іти and -ити (of the types білíти, жовтíти, чорнíти and біли́ти, жовти́ти, чорни́ти) are stressed in present-day Ukrainian. For instance, why do we have a verb with a movable stress біли́ти...
Folk perceptions of disease through the prism of Ukrainian and Polish phraseologyThe article analyzes the phraseological units of the Ukrainian and Polish languages motivated by folk perceptions of the etiology of diseases; describes ethnocultural features of the formation of the analyzed units; and reveals that in Ukrainian and Polish phraseology the idea of personification and demonic origin of...
The role of “portraits of words” card index in the compiling of new generation dictionariesThe article presents the concept of “portraits of words” card index as a necessary tool of the analysis of language changes for the compiling of dictionaries of new generation. Such card index contains information not only about the use of words in the texts of various functional styles, time, subject and purpose,...
The formation of the syntactic connection theory in the Ukrainian linguistics (17th – early 20th century)In Ukrainian linguistics, there are no historiographical papers offering an adequate description of the origin and development of the syntactic connection theory. Elsewhere, I have already proposed a periodization of the research on syntactic connections from the time of the appearance of first...
Prefixoides super- and mega- as means of football lexicon renewal: Ukrainian and Polish parallelsThe article describes the neologisms with the prefixoides super- and megarecorded in the modern Ukrainian and Polish football Internet discourse. Those innovations add meaningfulness and dynamism to a text, render the word semantics more expressive and intensive, and contribute to the economy of language...
Lexical Borrowings in Dialectal Phraseology of the Chernivtsi Region: The Diachronic AspectThis article is devoted to the analysis of dialectal phraseological units with foreign components (Romanian, German, Polish, Hebrew, Hungarian) recorded in the dictionary entitled “Phraseologisms and Paroemias of the Chernivtsi Region” (Фразеологізми та паремії Чернівеччини, 2017) from the point of view of their...
Selected Aspects of Terminological Derivation: A Study of Railway Transport TerminologyThis article offers an analysis of patterns of compound term formation in Ukrainian railway transport terminology. The study identifies different types of derivatives according to the nature of syntactic relations between their elements, parts of speech to which they belong, and structural composition. It also provides...
Prefixed Verbs with the Meaning ‘move upwards’ in the Structure of the Verbal Derivational Paradigm in the Ukrainian LanguageThis article presents an analysis of the content and structural-semantic peculiarities of derivative prefixed verbs with the meaning ‘move upwards’. As established, the verbs under consideration are characterised by twelve derivative meanings (‘materialised action’, ‘means of...
Changes in the Semantic Structure of Polish Idioms with the Seme ‘age of man’ in Dictionary Definitions and TextsThis article analyses changes in the semantic structure of 204 Polish idioms (with variants) including the seme ‘age of man’. Differences in the codification of these idioms in dictionaries from 1958–1969 and those published after 1989 are discussed with reference to the reflection of the...
Peculiar Features of Names of Household Objects in the Ukrainian Eastern Slobodian DialectsThis article presents an analysis of vocabulary of household objects in the Ukrainian Eastern Slobodian dialects. The area of vocabulary under discussion attracts the attention of researchers owing to its connection with material culture: it reflects human daily needs, social and economic living conditions and...
Main Trends in the Study of Ukrainian Surnames (Late Seventeenth – Early Twenty-First Centuries): I. The Achievements of Ukrainian OnomasticiansThis article analyses main trends in the study of Ukrainian surnames from the period between the late seventeenth and the early twenty-first centuries. It points out the topicality of research on regional anthroponymy and its contribution to the development...
A New Bilingual Phraseological Dictionary: A Polemical ReflectionThis article presents a critical analysis of the bilingual publication entitled A Lexicon of Polish and Ukrainian Active Phraseology (Leksykon aktywnej frazeologii polskiej i ukraińskiej / Leksykon pol′s′koï ta ukraïns′koï aktyvnoï frazeolohiï), compiled by Roman Tymoshuk, Wojciech Sosnowski, Maciej Jaskot and Yurii Ganoshenko. In the...
Lacunary Components in the Phraseology of the Ukrainian Areal ContinuumThis article deals with the peculiarities of the concept lacuna from the perspective of theoretical considerations. Based on theoretical studies of lacunarity, the author discusses issues related to the phenomenon of linguistic and cultural lacunae, including their sources and types. She also presents the main features of linguistic...
Features of Semantic Structure of Dialectal Texts Concerning Important Historical Events of the Early Twentieth CenturyThis article analyses the semantic structure of dialectal texts concerning important historical events of the early twentieth century, describes the characteristics of their linguistic representation and presents dynamic aspects of sense formation. The analysed material comes from...
Contribution of the Kharkiv Linguistic School to the Formation and Development of Theory of Non-Verbal CommunicationThis article describes contribution of the Kharkiv linguistic school to the formation of theory of non-verbal communication (NVC) and indicates the periods of its development in Ukrainian linguistics: from the psycholinguistic research of Oleksandr Potebnia (the late nineteenth century)...
A Typology of Word-Formation Paradigms of Polish Prefixed Verbs with the Meaning of ‘Moving Upwards’ This article offers an analysis of the derivational potential of Polish prefixed verbs with the meaning of ‘moving upwards’. The study defines a typical derivational paradigm of the verbs in focus, singles out derivational paradigm blocks based on word-class affiliation of the deverbatives, delineates...
Causes of Ironic Verbal Response to Positive ManipulationThis article analyses verbal expressions of ironic reaction to the manipulative use of compliments and speech markers of favourable attitude to the addressee. It is based on Ukrainian-language material. The study focuses on one particular type of response to the manipulative tactic of increasing the interlocutor’s significance, a glaring example...
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