SEMANTIC DERIVATION IN FORMING THE NAMES OF FEMALES ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE RUSSIAN AND SERBIAN LANGUAGES
The article is devoted to the study of the names of females formed as a result of semantic derivation, primarily as a result of metaphorical transfer, as well as metonymic and hyponymic transfers, in a comparative aspect - in the example of the Russian and Serbian languages. The names of females having a figurative component in their motivation go back to different thematic groups (names of animals, birds, fish, insects, fairy and literary characters, natural phenomena, the profession, kind of activity, object or tool, etc.). As a research material data from the explanatory dictionaries of Russian and Serbian languages were used. Comparing examples of semantic transfers in both languages, it is found that there are more common features than specific ones, which can be explained by the affinity of these languages and the similarity of the cultural heritage, respectively, of the linguistic picture of the world. The context plays an important role in understanding the imagery of persons’names.