No. 71 (2017): Southern Archive (philological sciences)
Romanic, Germanic and Oriental languages

SPECIFICITY OF THE LEXICAL-SEMANTIC FIELD “AGE” IN MODERN ENGLISH LANGUAGE

А. POZHAR

Published 2017-11-27

Keywords

  • lexical-semantic field “age”,
  • lexical-semantic group,
  • core of the field,
  • archaism,
  • supersema

Abstract

The article deals with the lexical-semantic field of “age” in modern English language. The main attention is drawn to the formation of the body of nominative English units used in the English-language discourse for indicating the “person’s age” notion.