Korotka I. The semantic organization of lexical clusters with the meaning of ʻgrowthʼ, ʻincreaseʼ in Germanic, Slavic and Baltic languages

The dissertation is devoted to the study of the patterns of semantic changes that took place in the group of Indo-European lexical clusters with synonymous meanings ʻto grow, to increaseʼ, units of which are attested in the Germanic, Slavic, and Baltic languages. On the basis of five lexical clusters’ material analysis, we suggested hypothesis that allows the selection of systemic coincidences in the semantic organization of the lexical clusters’ group with synonymous roots, the interpretation of the same vector and the results of the semantic development of several multi-rooted group of words by implementing a common «genetic program» (semantic potential), which we previously described as the sum of primary meanings, capable of forming the same semems’ chains independently in different nests in different periods of their lives. Such program indication, on the one hand, is the implicit sememe presence in the semantic word organization, that are absent in the description of the known amount of the words’ meanings, but very real from the view of the formed secondary meanings. On the other hand, the selection of such «program» provides in the multilingual word units: in one group the ancient semantic potential is realized, while in others – no (nonactivated «semantics genes»). Loss of certain word cluster productivity in speech practice indicates the exhaustion of the «genetic program».