SOCIAL LINGUISTIC SEMANTIC CHANGE OF LEXEMES IN RELATED LANGUAGES

Dumitru MELENCIUC, Veaceslav BOLIEV Universitatea de Stat din Moldova

Abstract

In this paper we undertake a social linguistic synchronic and diachronic comparative analysis of the semantic structure of some common origin lexemes taken from published sources, including dictionaries in some cognate languages, which have developed their semantic structures depending on specific historical conditions. We diachronically analyze lexemes, which can still be recognized as going back to the same source of origin and find out the degree of their semantic and structural change. Keywords: cognate, related language, extra-linguistic, social-linguistic, approach, semantic structure.