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One of the urgent problems of modern linguistics is the question of how language picture of the world is reflected in the grammatical level. Traditionally, it is mainly discussed the issues related to lexical semantics. This content vocabulary plan serves as the material for the finding and further study the specific features of the national perception of the world, national thinking. The article throws light upon the omens with the structure of syncretic sentences (transition between simple and complex) in which ...

The article is devoted to the analysis of paroemies from the point of view of ethno-hermeneutics and ethno-psycholinguistics. Main attention is drawn to the precedence as the most important characteristic of the paroemiological discourse. The authors analyse precedent phenomena, view precedent situations in paroemiological units. Precedence as an essential feature of the paroemiological discourse plays an important role in accumulation and retranslation of ethno-cultural information, serving as a certain indicator...

Agricultural and Weather-lore is a unique monument of folklore. It accumulates practical wisdom of people, experience gathered during the centuries and carefully passed on from generation to generation. It has been proved that agricultural and weather-lore is closely linked with customs, amulets and talismans. The aim of this article is to reveal whether we can take agricultural and weather-lores for linguistic units. This question has appeared because many scientific investigations have been made devoted to vario...