Cytenko O. Functional-semantic field of diminutiveness in Slavonic and German languages

The research work gives the complex analysis of the functional-semantic field of diminutiveness in modern Slavonic and German languages taking into account its structural and semantic peculiarities. It also explores the theoretical aspects of the field organization in particular functional-semantic field organization of any language; different points of view about the definition of this notion are analyzed. The investigation in the thesis is based on the data accumulated from the Ukrainian, Russian, English, German languages. The concept of the FSF of diminutiveness is examined from the comparative linguistic point of view. Special attention is given to the polyfunctionality of the language signs and their mutual relations inside of the field. The stress is made on the finding out of the markers of diminutiveness from the different language layers. The structure of the left and right components of paradigmatic row of FSF of diminutiveness (synthetic and analytic forms) and their semantic peculiaritiesare defined. The representitives of the FSF of diminutiveness can be found in all language levels: phonetic, morphological, lexical, syntactical, lexical-syntactical and textual levels. They are suffixes, prefixes, words, complex and repeated forms of words, syntactical constructions and so on. Their arsenal helps to express all the variety of semantic of diminutiveness within the analysed FSF. The peculiarities of categorical semantics of diminutiveness, its correlation with the categorical semantics of pejorativeness and the specificity of their entry to the functional-semantic field of diminutiveness are fixed.