STRUCTURAL AND SEMANTIC FEATURES OF RUSSIAN METONYMS DENOTING CIRCULATION OF AIR MASSES
The systemic features of lexis are studied by means of various methods of estimating the semantic potential, which are defined as paradigmatics, syntagmatics and derivation. The lexical structure of a language is built up of different elements that mirror the correlation of a word with the extralinguistic reality and define this word as a unit of lexico-semantic system of the language. The author analyses the nouns denoting a process and belonging to the lexico-semantic group of words that denote the elemental natural phenomena and have the word «wind» as their permanent constituent. The main goal of describing the lexico-semantic paradigm is to reveal common and deferential features of words belonging to the lexico-semantic group with the permanent semantic constituent «straight-line or circular flows» and to find out what place the conceptual units of these subgroups take in the paradigmatic field of the lexico-semantic group. The identification of factors proving the semantic proximity of lexemes of the near and peripheral zone of the lexico-semantic group under study is based on such criteria as the availability in an explanation dictionary of words defined directly by use of the word «wind» and the availability of a certain selection of semantic attributes which can be used to define the meaning content of lexemes. The analysis is based on generalized data from lexicographic sources which present one of the methods of realisng paradigmatic relations in the system of the language.