Семантична опозиція „верх / низ” у діалектній картині світу українців
Journal: Slavia Orientalis
Year: 2023

The "top-bottom" opposition is a binary spatial opposition.It describes the orientation of objects in space as well as identifies the spatial qualification of an object and models the coordinate system of the linguistic (resp.dialectal) worldview.This article deals with the problem of the semantic structure of derivatives, i.e. fragments of the derivative clusters of the base words of this opposition: верх, гора ("top") and низ, гора, (с)під ("bottom").The author scrutinizes the semantics of the