Vakulenko V. Greek and Latin loan words in Ukrainian folk texts

The Greek and Latin loan words researches place in Ukrainian linguistics is shown. The lingual and extralingual factors in Greek and Latin borrowings appearing in Ukrainian folklore texts are studied. The relative time and ways of the Greek and Latin loan words appearing in Ukrainian folklore texts are found out. The hypothesis of the research is that the Greek and Latin loan words together with originally native Ukrainian words are able to bear in diachrony the profound ethnically specific meanings, based on lexical paradigm and syntagma. The basic problem of the research is to describe the lexical valence of the Greek and Latin loan words and their place in the world image. The nuclear, near-nuclear and peripheral the Greek and Latin loan words are marked out, based upon their lexical valence, extralinguistic word associations and their importance for the Ukrainian world image. It is studied which the Greek and Latin loan words are used only in one folklore genre and which are represented in all of the studied ones. Greek and Latin borrowings in the Ukrainian folklore texts are classified on topics.