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SHIFT STRATEGIES OF IRRATIONAL VOCABULARY IN ENGLISH  \nOleh Demenchuk  \nRivne State University for the Humanities, Rivne, Ukraine [oleh.demenchuk@gmail.com](oleh.demenchuk@gmail.com)  \nThe paper focuses on the semantic derivation models of irrational vocabulary – a semantic class of words that denote the situation of experience that is not based on logical reasoning or clear thinking. The study shows the characteristics of the development of an irrational vocabulary semantic paradigm and reveals semantic derivation models of irrational verbs and adjectives in the English language. It is posited that semantic derivation strategies are realised simultaneously with the changes of the situation and actants profiles. The change of a situation profile suggests the shift in the experiencer’s vantage point, i.e. gnoseological (either perceptual orevaluative) position from which a situation is considered. The change of an actant profile provides for the shifts at the level of participants and their characteristics. The changes are thought to determine the types (models) of semantic shift strategies that underlie the development of the irrational words’ semantic paradigms. The analysis of the semantic shift strategies of irrational verbsand adjectives in English shows that the concept of irrationality may extend to the boundaries of the internal (occurring within the hierarchy of the person’s inner systems) and external (occurring within the hierarchy of the person’s values) conceptual domains. The study concludes that irrational verbs and adjectives in English may apply to the following semantic shift strategies: role (reduced to the changes of the participant’s type or structure), pragmatic (reduced to the changes of the participant’s communicative rank), deictic (reduced to the changes of the participant’s positional characteristics) and taxonomic (reduced to the changes of the participant’s categorical class) .  \nKeywords: irrational words; models; semantic derivation; semantic shift; situation; participant.  \nIntroduction  \nModern lexical semantics provides for the dynamic (i.e. generative) approach towards the study of lexical items’ contents (Pustejovsky, 1996; Paducheva, 2004; Koptjevskaja-Tamm, 2016; Skarabela et al., 2017, etc.) . Positing the idea of a dynamic conceptualisation of the world of discourse, such an approach reveals new perspectives in the lexical items’ semantics modelling, resulting in the elaboration of semantic derivation models (Lewandowka-Tomaszczyk, 1985; Nerlich & Clark, 1988; Radden, Kӧvecses, 1999; Traugott, Dasher, 2005; Moghaddam & Moghaddam, 2013; Nisnevich et al., 2015; Eger & Mehler, 2016, etc.) .  \nSemantic derivation modelling stems from a very long tradition, which underwent developments from historical (diachronic) (Darmesteter, 1886; Bréal, 1897) to cognitive (Lakoff, 1987; Sweetser, 1990), compositional (Pustejovsky, 1996; Sweetser, 1999), constructional (Goldberg, 1995; Rakhlyna, 2010), and typological semantic studies (Vanhove, 2008; Juvonen. & Koptjevskaja-Tamm, 2016) .  \nSemantic derivation is one of the aspects that reveals the dynamic potential of lexical items, discovers the mechanisms and strategies of lexical items’ extensions, displays the semantic associations that underlie the development of semantic paradigms of lexical items, etc. As a dynamic phenomenon, semantic derivation is interpreted in relation to the notion of semantic shift, it refers to “a pair of meanings which are linked by some genetic relations, either diachronically or synchronically, [e.g. as](e.g. as) two meanings of a polysemous lexeme”(Koptjevskaja-Tamm, 2016, p. 1) .  \nThe semantic shift strategies will be illustrated by means of irrational vocabulary – a semantic class of words that denote the situation of experience that is not based on logical reasons or clear thinking, cf.: irrational, unreasonable, to dawn, to intue, to occur, superstition, etc. Here also belong th","cbCaihV25ByVRSAc","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaihV25ByVRSAc","pdf",348546,"English","# Introduction\n## Semantic derivation and semantic shift\n## Irrational vocabulary as the study target\n## Purpose of the paper","[{\"question\":\"What does the paper mean by “irrational vocabulary” in English?\",\"answer\":\"It refers to a semantic class of words that denote experiential situations not grounded in logical reasoning or clear thinking, and it also includes related idioms.\"},{\"question\":\"How are semantic derivation and semantic shift connected in the study?\",\"answer\":\"Semantic derivation is interpreted in relation to semantic shift, treating linked meanings as connected by genetic relations either diachronically or synchronically.\"},{\"question\":\"Which semantic shift strategies are proposed for irrational verbs and adjectives?\",\"answer\":\"The paper concludes that irrational verbs and adjectives may be associated with role, pragmatic, deictic, and taxonomic semantic shift strategies.\"}]","MODELLING SEMANTIC DERIVATION - Semantic Shift Strategies of Irrational Vocabulary in English | PDF",1792066317,18]