The verb in the lexical structure of the hagiographic text: the paradigmatic aspect

Abstract

In the article, using an integrated approach to the analysis of linguistic facts, a fragment of the lexical structure of a hagiographic text formed by verbal units is characterized in a paradigmatic aspect. The material for the study was the lives of the synodal edition, included in the May cycle of the Four minas. It is shown that the lexical structure of the hagiographic text is formed by verbs of different lexico-semantic groups, commonality and differences in the use of verbal vocabulary due to the type of monastic or martyr asceticism are revealed. It is established that the systematic organization of verbs and stable verb-nominal combinations within the boundaries of the hagiographic text is provided by their synonymous, antonymic and hyper-hyponymic relations, the specifics of the implementation of which depends on the type of life.