Derivatives of phraseological units with religious components in the Ukrainian literary language Cover Image

Деривати фразеологiзмiв з релiгiйними компонентами в українському художньому мовленнi
Derivatives of phraseological units with religious components in the Ukrainian literary language

Author(s): Albina Kowtun
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku
Keywords: фразеологiзм з релiгiйним компонентом; дериват фразеологiзму; трансформацiя / усiчення / нарощення фразеологiзму Data wydania: 2016

Summary/Abstract: The article specifies the main ways of lexical-grammatical and stylistic updates of the modern Ukrainian literary language phraseological units with religious components: 1) phrasemes that relate to religion through their biblical origin, and 2) phrasemes with religious lexemes – commonly used religious units of terminology dictionary units and lexemes related to “secular” ethnographic realities (eg., чорт). The author maintains that 80% of transformations is accounted for by biblical phraseological units. Derivatives of phraseological units with religious are formed by 1) lexical (a) synonymous (поцiлунок iуди → поцiлунок учня) and b) antonymous (нести свiй хрест → обiйти свiй хрест), 2) grammatical (a) morphological (та мна вечеря – тамнi вечерi) and b) syntactic (reduction (Манна з неба (з небес) падає → манна), extension (Мойсей → новiтнiй Мойсей) and 3) combined (манна небесна → з неба крупа (манна → hyperonym крупа, небесна → з неба) updates of the structures of biblical phraseological units and phraseological units containing religious lexemes. Modified non-religious phraseological units after being extended with religious components replenish phrasicon of the Ukrainian language. Modification of the semantics of the primary collocations relates to antonymous varieties of phraseological units with religious components and partly to the units of grammatical and combined types. All updated phraseological units with religious components are marked with vivid emotionalism which often depends on the assessment of the negative phenomena of reality and some negative character traits or misconduct.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 16
  • Page Range: 253-268
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Ukrainian