LINGUISTIC AND COGNITIVE ANALYSIS OF WORD-FORMATION NESTS IN HUNGARIAN AND UKRAINIAN MILITARY TERMINOLOGY

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of military terminology from the cognitive aspect, in particular, to the analysis of word-formation nests in Ukrainian and Hungarian languages. Their structural organization, semantic relations and cognitive mechanisms of term creation are considered. The main word-formation models and their influence on the categorization of military reality are identified. The study is based on structural onomasiological, cognitive and comparative methods of analysis. The relevance of the study is stipulated by the need for a deeper understanding of the principles of military terms formation. The study of word-formation nests allows us to identify systemic connections between words, trace the patterns of derivational processes and understand the cognitive mechanisms of professional vocabulary formation. The aim of the article is to conduct a linguistic and cognitive analysis of word-formation nests in Hungarian and Ukrainian military terminology, to determine their structural organization, semantic relations and cognitive foundations of formation. It has been found that a significant number of military terms in Ukrainian and Hungarian form word-formation pairs, i.e. the minimum units of a word-formation nest.The vast majority of such military terms are represented by the two-zone substantive-adjective paradigm. A relatively large group of word-formation nests is represented by the three-zone substantive-adjective-verbal paradigm in both Ukrainian and Hungarian. The most numerous group of word-formation nests in Ukrainian military terminology is represented by poly-zone substantive-adjective-verbal paradigms. In Hungarian, derivatives derived from composite formations are widely represented, which is not typical for the Ukrainian military terminology. The obtained results contribute to a deeper understanding of term formation processes and may be useful for further research in the field of linguistics and military communication.