Galutskikh I. The Evolution of English and German Historical Core Vocabulary in VIII-XX cent. (structural, semantic, functional aspects).

English and German core vocabulary (in VIII-XX cent.). The aim: to enucleate the type of correlation between English and German core lexemes’ chronological stability, their structural, semantic, functional characteristics, the ways of their evolution and peculiarities of their interaction with the lexicon as a whole in the course of language evolution. The methods: method of complete choice, of etymological, structural, word-forming analyses, of dictionary definitions’ analysis, the elements of component, comparative, correlative and quantitative analysis. Scientific novelty: the notions of structural, functional, evolutionary centrality of chronologically stable words were explained; the mechanism of interaction of stabilizing and dynamic functions of core vocabulary was defined; the model of the English and German core vocabulary evolution mechanisms was elaborated; the type of correlation between the chronological stability of the words, their structural and communicative significance and their rolein English and German lexicon evolution was clarified; the concept of “core vocabulary” was amplified. Theoretical significance: contribution to historical lexicology and semasiology, expansion of the knowledge about lexicon adaptive mechanisms of English and German, semantic transformations of core vocabulary in the course of the analysed languages evolution. Practical significance: the usage in the following basic courses: The History of the English and German languages, The Introduction into Linguistics and General Linguistics, English and German lexicology, The Introduction into Germanic Linguistics, in optional courses on the theory of language evolution.