Сочетаемость слов с корнями дерз- (drbzb) и проблемы описания полисемии
The compatibility of words with the roots of dermo- ( drbzb) and the problem of describing polysemy

Summary/Abstract: Among a number of urgent questions waiting for systematic solutions in lexical semantics there is a question of the relation between the etymology of words and the evolution of different meanings of a word. The study of semantic change can be based on the study of word usage in context. In this paper, the author tries to demonstrate by the example of three Russian words (дерзить, дерзать, and дерзкий are words with different but related senses) what processes go on during the actualization of words in discourse. The history of the usage of this small lexical group is explored, starting from 19th-century Russian literature to modern journalism. The analysis is conducted on the basis of data found in the Russian National Corpus (www.ruscorpora.ru). The author shares the opinion that the various senses of a polysemous word have a central origin.

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