Sitniak R. The Diachronic Semasiology: History and Current State

The dissertation is the first attempt to identify and justify the scientific views on the principles of diachronic study of the semantic structure of words and reveal the patterns of development of comparative studies in such an important area of it as diachronic semasiology. The study was conducted in lingvohistoriographic aspect. It discloses the characteristic features of the research of the lexical meaning of words in the linguistics of the XIX – the beginning of XXI century. The development of non-linguistic sciences such as psychology, cultural studies, sociology, history has had a positive impact on the study of language, providing a large number of artifacts from different epochs and cultures. This has contributed to the allocation of certain factors that affect the development of semantic words in different languages. The principles of semantic reconstruction have played a vital role in the development of diachronic semasiology as a separate branch of linguistics. They have a high degree of data accuracy (E. Benveniste, V. V. Levitsky, A. A. Sorokina, H. A. Selivanova, and others).