INTRA-LINGUISTIC LACUNARITY IN LEXICO-DERIVATIONAL NESTS WITH THE APICES DENOTING THE NAMES OF SOMATIC OBJECTS "HAND" AND "LEG"

Zhao Meijuan

The phenomenon of lacunarity in the course of linguistic scientific research is traditionally revealed when comparing two or more languages. But there is also language lacuna within one language. The detection and systematization of such latent cells in a particular language due to ontological complexity is little studied in modern linguistics. Intra-linguistic lacunarity at the level of any subsystem of the language, in particular word-formation, has yet to be described. The scientific novelty of this work and the main purpose of the research is to study the derivatives of lexico-derivational nests with the apices "hand" and "leg" functioning in the literary subsystem. A comparison of the formal and semantic structure of derivatives of semantically close nests allows us to identify intra-linguistic lacuna, which we demonstrate in the research on the formation of derived units – nouns with the meaning of 'person named by attribute', constructed according to the word-formation model "the basis of a complex adjective + formant -k(a)".

Keywords:intra-linguistic lacuna, lexico-derivational nest, derived words, hand, leg