COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF ANTONYMOUS VOCABULARY OF THE CHINESE AND THE RUSSIAN LANGUAGES
Petrova Natal'ya Eduardovna, Rubtsova Elena Viktorovna
Kursk State Medical University
Abstract. The article is devoted to the research of antonyms in the Russian and Chinese lexicologies. A brief overview of the history of the study of antonymous vocabulary in these languages is given. A comparative analysis carried out on the basis of the morphological and structural classification and functional peculiarities of antonyms is conducted in order to identify common and distinctive features that is a degree of the linguistic isomorphism (at this language level) of such different in origin, structure and principles of functioning languages as Chinese and Russian. As a result of the analysis the authors come to the conclusion about functional isomorphism between these languages.
Key words and phrases: антонимия, принцип структурности, изоморфизм, универсализм, антитеза, контраст, однокорневые и разнокорневые антонимы, antonymy, principle of structural properties, isomorphism, universalism, antithesis, contrast, paronymous and non-paronymous antonyms
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