Study of mythological lexemas in modern linguistics

Sarvinoz Pulatova

doi:10.47689/2181-1415-vol2-iss9/S-pp1-7

Sarvinoz Pulatova PhD student, faculty of Foreign Philology, National University of Uzbekistan named after Mirzo Ulugbek, Tashkent, Uzbekistan

DOI

https://doi.org/10.47689/2181-1415-vol2-iss9/S-pp1-7

Keywords

mytho-lexeme , mythical creatures , semantics , semantic analysis , semantic meaning , homonymy , corpus research , normative frequency , corpus

Abstract

The article is given to considering semantics and recurrence of “Legendary creatures” names of the Germanic root within the English dialect. The creator looks at semantic implications of three lexemes of Germanic beginning designating legendary animals, analyzes standardizing recurrence of these lexemes in four corpuses, five sort sub-corpuses of the English dialect. The semantic implications of lexemes are distinguished; the lexemes are positioned agreeing to polysemy-monosemy feature and the recurrence within the present day English dialect. The paper considers the conceivable interrelations between the semantic, recurrence

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Published

2021-10-08

How to Cite

Pulatova, S. (2021). Study of mythological lexemas in modern linguistics. Society and Innovation, 2(9/S), 1–7. https://doi.org/10.47689/2181-1415-vol2-iss9/S-pp1-7