Any text of Folklore is a meta-language system. It consists of simple units (meta characters, or meta-marks), each of which has some sacred meaning, characteristic of the national culture and mythology in general. The ...

In the article the author analyses difficulties which appear in contemporary researches about the category of sign. According the author these difficulties often lead to ignoring the definitions of the category sign. To ...

At present the language situation, formed in the former USSR, enable to divide the country into two groups, the situations in which differ from each other radically. In one group the Russian language is widely presented ...

The aim of the present paper is to prove the presence of idioms in the child language. Idioms are used by children in modified forms. Idiomatic innovations may affect both structure and meaning of idioms. They are the ...

The report is devoted to the results of the study on the word-building capacities and lexical potentials of verbs and nouns in the short stories by A.I. Solzhenitsyn; the author’s preferences on the usage of stylistically ...

The paper describes lexical units which are adopted by the Polish youth slang as nicknames, which present an actual tendency in linguistic investigations. The vocabulary of Russian nicknames, edited by H. Valter and V. ...

The article is devoted to consideration of dialectal suffix’s models in the field of vocabulary of substantives, which are used for expression of basic word-formative meanings (of appellative, action, abstract indication, ...

The semantic subject is an element of the predicative-argumentative structure. It denotes a performer of an action or a bearer of a feature that is expressed by the predicate. The semantic subject can be conveyed explicitly ...

The contact with the animal kingdom has become the source of many observations for a human being. They refer to the way of behaving, moving, the appearance of the fauna representatives, their mutual relations or arrangements ...