Resume. The article is devoted to the study of call names Ukrainian servicemen, participants Russian-Ukrainian war, in particular question motives for nomination these onyms. This issue important and relevant, because its coverage allows not only explain mechanism production a new type informal anthroponyms, which very important, but also clarify how represent self-expression identification the...

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 ...

This paper presents the theoretical backgr ound of a large-scale lexicological research project on lexical variation that was carried out at the university of Leuven in the last three years. The project is situated in the framework of Cognitive Semantics in the sense of Lakoff (1987), Langacker (1990), Geeraerts (1989b), and Taylor (1989); it links up with the explorations of the relevance of p...