THE NAME UKRAINE AND ITS VARIABILITY IN UKRAINIAN PROSE ABOUT THE NATIONAL LIBERATION MOVEMENT OF THE FIRST HALF OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

The article presents an onomastic study of the functioning of the toponym Ukraine in the texts of twenty Ukrainian prose works about the national-liberation movement of the first half of the twentieth century. The basic scientists’ researches of geographical names and influence of individuals and society on their connotative value’s formation have been considered in the article. The importance of influence of social and political events, emotional-psychological experience and writers' world’s perceptions have been determined on the formation of connotative-associative layers on the general-conceptual semantics of the propriative Ukraine. The quantitative uses of variants of the toponym Ukraine in the texts of twenty Ukrainian works, the motivation of the names and their structural features have been established. It has been discovered, that structurally the name Ukraine has been used by writers in the form of a 1-lexeme unit, 2 (3) - component structure and multiplex formations. The name Ukraine in the twenty Ukrainian prose works has been presented in its variants with the attributes by the writers' personal feelings, the State’s territorial features, the governmental system and political regime, the colour sign of governing ideologies, the state symbols and with the attributive-personal noun mother (nanny). The associative-connotative semantics of the toponym Ukraine with its variants has been established