TYPOLOGY OF ONOMASYOLOGICAL BASES AND SIGNS OF QUASIC COMPOSITES OF THE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to analyze the onomassiological bases and signs of quasi-compound words, which exist in the modern Russian language. The object of the study were quasi-composites, namely, the lexemes which were built not by condensation of sentences and word-combinations, but by analogy with the already existing lexical units. The subject was the description of the features of onomasiological models of quasicomposites. The material of the study is made up by about 900 intrinsic non-proper words, which can be found in modern dictionaries. Descriptive and structural methods, as well as the method of onomasiological analysis are used in this work. Finding is in making up the classification of onomasiological bases and onomasiologiacal signs, which is based on the semantic criterion. The practical value is possible in studies devoted to the peculiarities of the word-formation of the Russian language and its onomasiological structures. Results: 1) all onomasiological bases and signs can be divided according to the semantic criterion (description of a person, biological creature, process, subject, etc.); 2) one and the same word-building construction can act both as an onomasiological basis, and as a onomasiological sign; 3) onomasiological basis is a concept that can be the basis of the subject classification; 4) the main task of the onomasiological sign is to characterize the basis; 5) the study of derivative words within the framework of onomasiological structures is a promising direction for the study of modern language systems through the possibility of mapping not only grammatical, but also semantic links between its components.