Abstract This paper extends the scope of application semantic map model to diachronic lexical semantics. Combining a quantitative approach large-scale synchronic polysemy data with qualitative evaluation material in two text languages, ancient Egyptian and Greek, it shows that weighted maps can capture informative generalizations about organization lexicon its reshaping over time. The general m...

The article is devoted to the main problems faced by students of philology in study English lexicology. In university course lexicology considered as a branch linguistics that has its own goals and methods research, tasks systematic description vocabulary according origin, development current use. paper emphasizes importance studying higher education institution, because knowledge lexical units...

Abstract This study adopts a corpus-based behavioral profile approach, combining multifactorial usage-feature analysis with frequency-based quantitative analysis, to investigate the diachronic semasiological variation of Mandarin Chinese temperature term 热 re ‘hot’. The result shows dynamic profile, i.e., both usage patterns and structural weight senses have been constantly shifting. semasiolog...

Abstract While the research literature on regional dialect levelling is substantial (e.g. Williams and Kerswill 1999 ; Britain 2002 Watt Jansen 2019 ), this process under-explored under-theorised when it comes to patterns of lexical usage. Using maid as a case-study, in article I provide detailed account processes Cornwall. consider usage from two perspectives, that onomasiology semasiology. Fr...

Health 2020: European health and well-being policy. It focuses on supporting the actions of governments society in direction significantly improving population; reducing level inequality receiving medical services; promoting everyone; ensuring that care system is "human-centred". The position World Organization unequivocal – "the most important general issue internationally" patient safety (an ...

In 2001 the metaphor of ‘crossing the Rubicon’ and many variations on this theme ran through the German debate about research using human embryonic stem cells. This article studies how the Rubicon metaphor was argumentatively exploited after having been prominently used by President Rau in a speech Wird alles gut? – Für einen Fortschritt nach menschlichem Maß (Will everything turn out well? For...

The article provides an insight into a problem of lexical semantic change. A short historical outline of the development of semantic studies is given. The authors analyze some of the most important stages in the history of the formation of this field. The existing approaches to dealing with form and meaning, namely semasiological and onomasiological ones are discussed. The authors consider the ...

Объект внимания настоящей статьи – лексико-семантические оппозиции русского и осетинского языков. Указанные противопоставления рассматриваются с точки зрения семемной семасиологии, а именно значение (семема) описывается как некоторая целостность, вне детализации ее структуры; соответственно, анализируются семантемы, то есть состав семем одной лексемы, функционирующей в русском осетинском языках...