НОМІНАТИВНЕ ПОЛЕ СУБКОНЦЕПТУ SANITAS В ЛАТИНСЬКІЙ МОВІ

Abstract

The article is devoted to the investigation of the nominative field of the subconcept SANITAS in the Latin language, which has a complex character due to the integration in its structure lexical field, phraseological field and synonymic sets. The essence of the nominative field in the system of language has been analyzed with regard to the specifics of nominative units – its verbalizers; kernel and prekernel zones, near and far peripheries have been defined; the means of microfields verbalization of the prekernel zone of subconcept SANITAS as well as the list of lingual units verbalizing the concept HEALTH have been investigated. It has been defined that nominative field structure of the HEALTH concept is represented as core and pre-core zones consisting of some microfields as well as close and distant peripheries of SALUS, SANITAS, VALETUDO subconcepts. The semantic field of the SANITAS subconcept has been built up due to the principle of semantic proximity / difference basing on the integral seme and frequency of acquiring certain meanings by the concepts’ names. It has been defined that the SALUS, SANITAS, VALETUDO subconcepts share the common slots «being (somatically and/or mentally) healthy» and «providing somatic and/or mental health». It has also been emphasized that the SANITAS subconcept substantially integrated the semes of HEALTH concept that led to its dominant role in nominating both somatic and mental health states in the lingual world model of the ancient Romans, while the sanitas lexeme and co-root words appear to be the fundamental means that verbalize the HEALTH concept in the Latin language. Therefore, the article contributes to the development of the theoretical principles of ancient languages concepts’ research as well as to the development of cognitive linguistics, linguistic culturology, axiological linguistics, etc. It enables to find out the specific dimensions of ancient Romans’ mode of thinking and their world outlook.