Basalkevych O. Modelling of the thesaurus of qualitative adjectives in Older Scots.

The totality of synonymous qualitative adjectives of Older Scots, whose complementary existence is studied within the synonymic sets that are chronologically ordered, the diachronic or historical synonymic sets, is regarded in the proposed work. Reversive sets or epidigmatic structures of adjectives make the second type of the regarded meaning maps. The extended research of the Older Scottish adjectives is realized in the context of additional lexicography and literature sources. The wide meaningfulness of the compiled historical synonymic sets is motivated by the inherence of everysemy (eurysemy) qualities such as syncretism, polydenotatism, synsematism and polyfunctionality in the collocations of adjectives. Subsequently, owing to Zipfian regularity, the research transfers into the cognitive plane, where based on the accomplished sets, the fragment of an adjectival associate map of Older Scots is being evolved. The complex of simulative technics: tracing of associative antipodes, evolving of associative adjectival structures, restoring of associative norms, associative distancing and differentiating of Older Scottish lexis following the six scales of a fuzzy associative differential, which are applied to the map in order to revive its associative attraction within our work, is called the historical associative thesaurus of evaluation, activity and potency on the material of Older Scots (Scottaurus). Neither Ukrainian nor British linguistic school has ever performed the similar lexicographic study in Older Scots. Methodological novelty roots in a new method of reconstruction and research of associative maps of older lingual states, particularly, in semantic differentiation of the lexis. with the synthesis of mental (combinatorial semantic) representations.