Development of the Word-Formation Field of the Concept 'Fear'[strakh] in the Russian Language of the XVIII - XX Centuries

Abstract

In modern Russian the most important and developed microfields in the structure of the word-formation field of the concept ‘FEAR’ [strakh] are the "Action" and the "Attribute, Quality" ones. They reflect significant cognitive signs of the emotional concept associated with the expression of movement, intensity, etc. Other microfields have either not received a proper derivational development or they were formed much later. In general, we can talk about a significant reduction in one-root derivatives representing the ‘fear’. There is a variety of reasons for it: transformation in the words’ semantics, isolation of a new family of words from the verb ‘insure’ [strakhovat’], etc.