On lexicographic description of clothing nominations in the Russian language of the 21st century

In this paper, basic principles of defining clothing nominations in the Russian language of the 21st century are articulated. The author singles out both extra- and intralinguistic factors affecting quantitative and lexical-semantic composition of names of clothes. The first group comprises development of the industry associated with the production of clothing, and as a consequence, the increase in the total number of denotative components that require representation at the linguistic level. The second group includes grammatical, derivational, semantic and graphic “adaptation” of new words in the Russian language, as well as modification of the meaning of nominations denoting concepts long-known to the Russian language personality. Based on the structural, derivational and semantic characteristics of the elements of this field of knowledge, the author identifies such types of nominations as words, compound nominations, simple phrases, the components of which are syntactically connected by adjunction and morphosyntactic agreement. We specify the graphical variants for the nominations with frequency equal or more than four in the texts of the discourse of clothes, and also derivational and syntactic variants, for example, when a word nomination is semantically identical to a phrase nomination. The structure of the definition is presented by the author as a three-level microsystem consisting of integral components of meaning of the first and second levels, as well as a set of differential components of meaning, which are strictly fixed in the framework of the lexical-semantic group “Clothes”. As a result, the author comes to the conclusion that the compilation of a dictionary on the basis of a certain lexical-semantic group meets the principles of the system approach to information processing, which greatly facilitates the task of statistical accounting and semantic description of the language vocabulary as a whole.