Lutava S. Lexical-Semantic Field of Loci in Modern Ukrainian Literary Language

The thesis is devoted to the study of the loci lexical-semantic structure in modern Ukrainian literary language. First, the paper outlines existing scholarly approaches to the space semantics study and concentrates on the terminology used when identifying and classifying the loci. The research offers the term "locus" for the place and space names, clarifying and developing profoundly its linguistic definition which is based on the concept scrutinized properties, phenomena, and vocabulary which represent them. Also, considering the lack of a single approach to the identification and classification of the space nominations characteristics in modern linguistics, the paper carries out the analysis and develops unique identification and differential loci parameters which underlie the concept, i.e. a fundamental division of the lexical units semantics into two major groups "real space" and "virtual space".