EXISTENTIAL PHENOMENA IN LANGUAGE AND MYTHIC SPACE

O.S. Kolesnyk

doctor of philology, professor Kyiv Borys Grinchenko University

ABSTRAKT

The article considers verbal representations of existential phenomena from the standpoint of universalia-centered linguistics and the methodology of M-logic. Special attention is paid to the etymological analysis of the LIFE concept’s names in Indo-European languages and the reconstruction of the cognitive models, the latter being the bases of the lingual units designating the said phenomena in the archaic Germanic languages.

KEY WORDS: existential phenomenon, mythic space, semantics, sense, model.

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