A project of The Motivological Comparative Dictionary of Russian, English and Czech: Names of Plants

The article points to the lexicographic experience of interpreting the word motivation conception in the comparative aspect with use of the thematic word groups of plants (on the basis of the Russian, English and Czech languages). The models of a dictionary entry of a motivological-comparative dictionary of the three languages are considered from the position of their information and source value. The purpose of the motivological-comparative dictionary is to present motivated, semi-motivated and non-motivated vocabulary as a system as well as to give broad information about motivated lexical units. The structure of an entry consists of the Latin name of a plant with its translation, a plant name and its lexical meaning, the results of the psycholinguistic experiment, a mark of a motivated/ non-motivated lexical unit, motivation and nomination features, phyto-nymic and etymological references. This dictionary is a source for the research of lexicological and lexicographic problems. It also allows examining lexical units of the compared languages from the linguocul-tural point of view. This information is in the inner form of a word and in a set of motivation features of plant names. Comparison of motivated phytonyms allows defining the peculiarities of the national character and national culture of a particular ethnos that have been manifested in motivation features and in the inner form of these names. Every zone of a vocabulary entry has broad informative and source study possibilities. The headword zone is representative. It shows the Latin variant and the lexical meaning of a phytonym. They are necessary for the nomenclature of the name and its denotative correlation. The zone of metalinguistic consciousness statements informs about the motivational form of a word and interprets its motivational meaning. The data of the psycholinguistic experiment give some material for qualification and illustration of remotivation and lexi-calization of the inner form of a word. The referential zone consists of dictionary information and data from botany literature in Russian, English and Czech. The interpretation zone informs about motivated lexical units, which allows analyzing the peculiarities of the inner form of a word, its components, types of motivation, correlation of motivation and nomination features, word motivation influence on different word's components in Russian, English and Czech. Multilingual motivological-comparative dictionary as a dictionary of a new type gives information for elaboration of theoretical and practical problems of comparative lexicology, typology of Slavic and Romance languages and comparative motivology.

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