CRITERIA OF CORRELATION BETWEEN PARONYMY AND CORRELATED PHENOMENA
The article dwells on differentiation of paronymy, homonymy, polysemy and synonymy which is a topical issue in linguistics. The essence of the phenomenon of paronymy on phonetic and semantic levels is defined.comparative analysis of paronymy and the correlated phenomena is carried out; its results are demonstrated in a scheme. Formal, semantic and functional differences between these linguistic phenomena are revealed and it is confirmed by concrete material. It is concluded that paronymy is defined by a combination of formal, semantic and functional aspects.