THE MICROSYSTEM OF THE COLOUR RED IN THE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE HISTORY                            (THE SEMANTIC ASPECT) 

Kezina Svetlana Vladimirovna, Candidate of Philology, associate professor, sub-department of Russian language, Penza State Pedagogical University named after V. G. Belinskiy 

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The article is devoted to the studying of sense-development on a material of Russian lexicon of red colour. Semantics of red colour goes back to the Indo-European period. In the language history colourlexemes were transformed into polysemants which sinse the XVII-th century break up and are variously actualized. Comparison of semantic spaces of colourlexemes of different diachronic fields finds out the semantic isomorphism testifying to the natural character of sense evolution. 

a diachronic field, a colour locus, colour designation (a colourlexeme), sema, semantic structure, semantic space, a polysemy.