Agioseme as a component of the semantic structure of religious vocabulary
Journal: Богословский сборник Тамбовской духовной семинарии
Year: 2025

The article is devoted to the controversial issue of classification of religious vocabulary. It presents a critical analysis of existing approaches to classification and nomination of religious vocabulary. The purpose of this study is to substantiate a new approach to classification of religious vocabulary based on the criterion of the presence of agioseme in the semantic structure of the lexeme. Agioseme is considered as a minimal component of the semantic structure of a word, which has the mea