ABSTRACT
Myklash, L. T. Structural and Semantic Parameters of the English Forestry Term System. – Manuscript.
Thesis for a Candidate Degree in Philology (PhD): Speciality 10.02.04 – Germanic Languages. – Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University, Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, Kyiv, 2018.
The thesis attempts at a complex study of structural, lexical and semantic peculiarities together with specific relations of the terms constituting the English forestry term system.
Much attention is devoted to the historical background of formation of the English specialized words related to forestry that makes it possible to outline periodization of the development of the forestry terminology.
The paper offers an account of replenishing the field vocabulary (neologisms) and the peculiarities of borrowed units, its features and specific usage. The author traces a shift in semantic meaning and changes of the former terms and assimilation of new ones.
The study also presents the field vocabulary to be characterized and classified according to the sector specifics as well as the composition of the major thematic and semantic groups.
Additionally, the thesis covers morphology and semantic peculiarities of terms, in particular forest, plant, arbor, wood, cut, grow, bark, log, harvest, root, seed, and the parameters of their word family derivatives. The word-forming potential of the above mentioned lexemes is presented through semantic graphs. The derivational paradigm of the lexeme can serve as an indicator of motivated use of a term.
The findings of the research enable us to describe structural semantic models, ways and methods of term formation together with the formal structure of terms and their classification. The types of semantic relations (homonymous, polysemic, synonymic, antonymic and hyper-hyponymic) have been investigated.
The paper maintains that the forestry term system can be considered as a primary mega term system that covers subsystems of forest science (silviculture and silvics) and forest utilization as well as forms terminology of gardening and landscape design as the secondary terminology.
Keywords: term, term system, forestry, lexeme, loan word, neologism, classification, thematic group, structure, word formation, derivative, composite, terminological phrase, semantic relations.
