THE ONOMASTICON OF THE POETIC CALENDAR “ROADS OF LIGHT” BY OLEXANDR KOZYNETS’

Abstract

This article examines the set of proper names recorded in Oleksandr Kozynets’ collection “Roads of Light” (2021), which has the form of a poetic calendar. Theoretical concepts concerning research were described: onomasticon, literary and art onomasticon, criteria for describing set of proper names. 453 proper names were recorded in 366 texts grouped by seasons and months. Poem titles were classified according to structural and parts of speech features and the following groups were identified: single-component poem titles (nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns), multi-component poem titles (titles-compounds, titles with a subordinating conjunction, titles with a conjunctive conjunction, etc.). One-component titles were more frequent (92% of 366 units). 69% of the titles are represented by nouns, 16% by verbs. Compound titles predominate among multi-component units (45%). The functions of poem titles in the decoding of texts are described, the title of the collection is investigated. The functioning of repeated title lexemes in view of grammatical meanings (without change or with a change in grammatical form) is revealed. The examples made it possible to demonstrate the role of poem titles in the creation of means of textual imagery and phonostylistic means. Proper names were classified according to lexical-semantic features: chrononyms, theonyms, anthroponyms, biblionyms, oikonyms, choronyms, oronyms, etc. Chrononyms turned out to be the most frequent (39% of 87 units), which is explained by the form of the collection. This is a poetic calendar, where some texts are dedicated to holidays of various nature. The use of theonyms (17%) is caused by the author’s worldview and Christianity. It was found that most of the proper names are used in their literal meaning. These proper names reveal intertextual connections with other texts, outline the toponymy of the poem action, the feelings of the lyrical hero and the author.