SEMANTICS OF PRECEDENT PROPER NOUN AND ITS SENSE VARIATION
In the article, the semantics of a precedent noun in the Russian-language works by I. A. Brodsky is analysed. The paper presents a comparison of scientists’ points of view on the problem of an onym’s meaning, as well as researchers’ opinions on the semantics of a precedent noun. A new classification of precedent nouns in I. A. Brodsky’s works is given, depending on whether the nouns have changed their meaning or retained it. In the process of classification, for the first time attention is paid to the author’s and a reader’s cultural encyclopaedias. Sense variation of precedent onyms in I. A. Brodsky’s lyric works is identified and substantiated.