Lexical and semantic classification of Church Slavonic

In: Aktualʹni pytannja suspilʹnych nauk ta istorii͏̈ medycyny: spilʹnyj ukrai͏̈nsʹko-rumunsʹkyj naukovyj žurnal = Current issues of social studies and history of medicine : joint Ukrainian-Romanian scientific journal = Aktualʹnye voprosy obščestvennych nauk i istorii mediciny = Enjeux actuels de sciences sociales et de l'histoire de la medecine, Heft 3 (31), S. 16-20

Abstract

The article analyzed the Church Slavonic vocabulary, which formed 27 lexical and semantic groups of church Slavonic nouns and substantive adjectives. The largest in volume (450 units) is a group to refer to the names of abstract concepts, different states, actions, properties, as well as various fields of activity, scientific terms, students, currents, in particular religious, which indicates the great influence of the Church Slavonic language on the Ukrainian language in this area. Smaller groups are groups designating persons by type of activity, social status, character or behavior (286), the names of saints, clergy, other spiritual and religious-church persons, as well as the names of church positions, titles, sleighs and ranks of the clergy (165), the names of buildings, in particular church, parts of the temple and objects of religious and ecclesiastical use (73) and others. The relevance of work pours out of the need for a comprehensive analysis of Church Slavonic as an organic member of the modern Ukrainian language that requires a special study – fuller presentation, clarification, specifying or reassessment of previously known phenomena and facts. The paper covers the question of the place and status of Church Slavonic the lexical system of the modern Ukrainian language, and this aspect of the study, closely related to the problem of interaction between church Slavonic and Ukrainian elements in the Ukrainian language of the new time, still remains debatable. The following scientific methods were used in the study: descriptive, statistical. The scientific novelty of the work lies in the fact that for the first time in Ukrainian linguistics a comprehensive lexical and semantic analysis of Church Slavonic in the modern Ukrainian language was carried out, which makes it possible to determine the place of Church Slavonic vocabulary in the system of modern Ukrainian language and the influence of the Church Slavonic language on the Ukrainian language. The results of the work show that discussions on the emergence of Church Slavonic in the Ukrainian language continue among industry experts and linguists.