Genesis of Figurative Lexico-Semantic Variant of a Word

Background: Topicality of the given work is conditioned by the perception of figurativeness as an inherent component in the semantic structure of a word, besides verbal figurativeness has not been studied in terms of its genesis. Purpose: The purpose of the analysis is to determine the origin of verbal figurativeness using figurative nouns denoting a person as an empiric data. Results: Verbal figurativeness is perceived here as a semantic component in the structure of a connotative meaning of a word along with the evaluative, stylistic, emotive and expressive components. Figurativeness is the quality transference from an object to another one. These objects do not belong to the same class but the identity is found in the real or imaginative associations between them. The regular occurrences take place in these transferences. The categorial shift from abstract to concrete and change in seme status in figurative LSV are among them. Genesis of figurativeness is rooted in a definite LSV of a word in the connotative or denotative meaning of a base LSV; the latter contains the common seme for the base and figurative LSV which is the stepping stone for figurativeness genesis. Discussion: The figurative meaning of a word emerges mostly from the first lexico-semantic variant of a word, which is considered as a base LSV, and largely from potential seme of a base LSV. Besides the categorial shift and seme status variations occur in figurative lexico-semantic variant of a word