IMPLICATIVE METASEMY – AN INDISPENSABLE SOURCE OF ECOLOGICAL TERMS

Dorina MACOVEI Universitatea de Stat din Moldova

Аннотация

Implicative metasemy represents a semantic mutation and is a fundamental aspect of terminology. The goal of this paper is to examine the extent to which this phenomenon affects the ecological terminology and to provide a clear taxonomy of ecological terms based on implicative metasemy. Keywords: metasemy, terminology, term, specialized language, taxonomy, metonymy.