TERM DERIVATION AS AN ENRICHMENT SOURCE OF IVAN FRANKO’S POLITICAL LEXICON

Abstract

The article considers the issue of creation, rise and development of the political term system in Ivan Franko’s research. It defi nes the innovative character of the thinker’s term practice, the historical impact on modernization of the Ukrainian political thought. The study deals with the rise and development of the national term system at the end of XIX – beginning of XX century. The task was determined by the necessity to solve two problems: a) to establish the only literary language; b) to create the national scientifi c language with the core formed by terms. The solution of those urgent problems required innovative methodological approaches. The research highlights the historical importance of Ivan Franko’s activity aimed at the development of the political scientifi c language particularly the political terminology, his contribution to the modernization of the Ukrainian political thought. The author’s resources served to be the main source of the term enrichment in Franko’s lexicon. The most productive way of word building is assumed to be the morphological one where the affi xation turns out to be dominant. The majority of the morphological derivatives are adjectival and verbal nouns. The conclusion is that the relevance and importance of Ivan Franko’s terminology go far beyond the scope of linguistics. The multi-dimensional activity of the researcher-terminologist and term-creator promoted not only the enrichment of the Ukrainian political lexicon by means of oneword original terms but also the intellectualization, presentation of new natiosophic notions. Ivan Franko modernized the Ukrainian political thought, enriched it with new knowledge of state formation.