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The article describes a fragment of the Russian language picture of the world «Fantastic birds», represented by the lexico-semantic group of the same name, from the point of view of paradigmatics, semantics and linguocultural specificity.The purpose of this article is to analyze the structural and semantic connections of the typical nominations of fantastic birds included in the lexico-semantic group «Fantastic birds» in the Russian language, and the specifics of the field organization of the lexico-semantic in Russian language.The component and context analysis of the explication of the semantic composition of the content of the lexemes under consideration in the Russian linguoculture is actual. The analysis of paradigmatic connections and similar changes in the semantic structure of the borrowed and Russian nominations related to the lexico-semantic group “Fantastic Birds”, the meanings of which respectively get or actualize the Russian linguoculture national specifics, is fundamentally new in the article.The article concludes that the original mythological meaning of the nominations has transformed into the meaning of ‘fantastic bird’, which gradually loses its connection with mythology and acquires characteristic parameters that are significant for Russian speakers, the volume and degree of expression of which is associated with the location of lexemes in the field structure of the lexico-semantic group «Fantastic birds» in the Russian linguoculture.Based on the contexts of existence of lexeme which were obtained using the sampling method through the National Corps of the Russian language, the author found that the Russian language is characterized by the development on the basis of the studied nominations of proper names, which are homonymous words in relation to these lexemes, the appearance of ethnospecific semes in the meaning structure of the nominations, contamination of the meanings of some words, the formation of the same type of cognitive metaphor based on the direct meaning of the lexemes, reflecting the similarity, contiguity and associative connections between the target area and the source area in the Russian language.The research materials were obtained during the work with different types of Russian dictionaries (encyclopedic, mythological, ethnolinguistic, etymological, historical, explanatory, dictionaries of foreign words) and the National Corps of the Russian language and cover the period from the 11th to the 21st centuries.

The article analyzes particular qualities of the lexical semantics development of phoenix nomination borrowed from the Greek language with the direct meaning "fantastic bird" in the Russian linguistic picture of the world. The purpose of this article is to study the main change directions of the direct meaning of the phoenix nomination included in the lexico-semantic group "Fantastic Birds", and to show the specifics, including national, of semantic increments of the lexeme in the corresponding contexts of being related to the XVIII-XXI centuries. The study offers relevant componenti and contextual analysis of the seme component expressions of the considered lexeme phoenix in the Russian linguistic culture. The author provides a fundamentally new analysis of the semantic structure changes of borrowed nominations related to the lexico-semantic group "fantastic birds" in the Russian language. The article concludes that the initial meaning of phoenix nomination "mythological bird" which continues to influence the semantic structure of the direct and figurative word meanings was transformed into the meaning "fantastic bird", which gradually loses its connection with mythology in the Russian linguoculture. The author notes that the direct meaning is characterized by both the keeping of the mythological anthropocentrism manifestations and their loss. Based on the contexts of existence of lexeme phoenix which were obtained using the sampling method through the National Corpus of the Russian language, the author speciies that the development of occasional semantic components in the structure of its meaning are connected with the gender of the bird, its qualitative and functional characteristics, description of appearance and abilities in the Russian language. The research materials were obtained during the work with different types of Russian dictionaries (encyclopedic, mythological, ethnolinguistic, etymological, historical, explanatory ones, dictionaries of foreign words) and the National Corpus of the Russian language.