Semantic elements of the concept of mother in derivatives from the nouns maty and nenia in Ukrainian Middle-upper-Dnieper and Hutsul dialects.

Abstract

It has been acknowledged that dialectal worldview is formed by concepts - human mental activity units which conserve knowledge and ideas about fragments of reality, represented by means of language. In this way, statements about the world are saved in concepts. The purpose of this study is to analyze the conceptual meanings associated with the roots -mat-(y), (-mam-(a)), -nen’-(a) in the language spoken by Middle-upper-Dnieper and Hutsul users. To achieve the objectives we used the component analysis method, suitable for identifying the components in a semantic structure of words. The results of this study show that more derivatives from the nouns maty and nenia are used in the Hutsul dialects. The results also reveal that derivatives in the speech
of Hutsul users actualize an overwhelming number of conceptual features and form more semantic blocks. Moreover, our research testifies that Hutsul speakers understand the mother’s image in contamination of profane and sacred principles which causes correlation of the earthly mother’s image with the image of the Virgin Mary. The study emphasizes a more important place of the concept of the mother in the Hutsul worldview.