Demyanyuk A. Composits in Old Ukrainian literary language of the end of the XVIth-XVIIth century: structural-semantic and functional aspects (based on poetic texts)

In the dissertation the analysis of composits in Old Ukrainian literary language of the end of the XVIth-XVIIth century in structural-semantic and functional aspects is made. During the process of work the method of paraphrasing is used for the purpose of reconstruction of the processes of formation of the compound nouns and adjectives, their word-formative structure and semantic validity are determined. On the basis of correlation of formal and semantic derivation it is proved that the same formal structure of composits can be represented by different semantic models not only at inter-categorical level but also withіn the one word-formative category.The stulistic potential of common compounds and compound author's neologisms in Old Ukrainian literary language of the end of the XVIth-XVIIth century is analyzed. Key words: composit, word-formative periphrasis, semantic validity, word-formative type, word-formative model, word-formative formant, word-formative category, word-formative semantic, Old Ukrainian literary language of the end of the XVIth-XVIIth century.