THE PHENOMENON OF LEXICAL COHERENCE IN RUSSIAN DIALECTS: TO THE PROBLEM STATEMENT
The article discusses various points of view on the phenomena of lexical polysemy and homonymy, which are presented in the works of linguists. The author analyzes the approaches to distinguishing between these phenomena, criteria that allow separating polysemy from homonymy, the reflection of these phenomena in dialect dictionaries. The article substantiates the need to introduce the concepts of lexical coherence and coherent lexemes into scientific usage to indicate the results of parallel word formation. These concepts will allow you to most accurately describe such lexemes and separate them from homonyms, as well as from polysemantic words.