Ukrainian language

The article traces the phenomena of synonymy and variants in the Ukrainian forestry terminology, reveals the specificity of the terms and the terms variants presentation in “The Russian-Ukrainian dictionary of forestry terms” (1980), distinguishes between synonymous terms and term variants, presents the synonymic rows according to lexico-grammatical, phonetical, word-formative peculiarities, analyzes the synonymic terms and term-variants in the field of forestry.

The article describes history and state of research of eponyms in Ukrainian and world linguistics.

The article considers the emergence and fixation in the dictionaries of the terms with the component hydro- in the modern Ukrainian language. It clears up their thematic and semantic groups, sphere of usage, the change of the semantic structure of a word, their paradigmatic and syntagmatic, the appropriateness of their usage in the modern systems of terms.

In the article the term group «noun» in morphological terminology of Ukrainian language at the end of XIX beginning of XX century is considered. The transition of scientific thought on the stage of improvement and consolidation of a number of morphological terms is revealed. Ambiguity of the use of the term “morphology” is traced, examples of varying parts of speech is given. It is marked the reasons that prevented unification of morphological terms. Most morphological terms included in the bosom of modern morphological structure of Ukrainian language and entrenched in it.

The article deals with the appearance of impersonal constructions with verbal forms in -no, -to and the comparison of their usage in the four Slavic languages: Polish, Czech, Russian and Ukrainian.

The article deals with the history of formation of word combination terminology as a part of Ukrainian syntactic terminology. On the basis of historical sources it is possible to discover the contribution of Ukrainian grammarians in the development of syntactic terminology connected with the revival of theoretical achievements of the Ukrainian syntactic science since the second half of the nineteenth century. The presentation of term usage in linguistic works allows determining the main trends of term creation, one of which declares a Ukrainian basis.

The article indicates the specificity of the term as an inseparable element of a term system. It examines term combinations with the component «museum» and its derivatives in the Ukrainian term system of Museum Studies fixed in present-day terminological dictionaries relating to the field, distinguishing structural models of formation of these analytical terms.

The analysis of a relatively small group of Ukrainian lexical units related to the foreign word «media» in terms of morphological adaptation and trends and patterns of terminology and spelling codification gives the authors a reason to stress the need for a concerted effort of Ukrainian professionals to systematize terms of the media sphere.

The article concentrates on the problem of the part of speech theory as a separate branch of linguistics and ways of consolidating groups of words into a system.

In this the article terminological lexis which appeared during the revolution on Maidan Square and the military action in the Crimea and Donbas is reviewed. This lexis has become an integral part of the language of contemporary massmedia. Its thematic groups have been identified and features of usage in author’s texts illustrated.