@article{c4e1ca9e-32a5-43a5-a6e5-aca8b0e337a0, author = {Andrej Borisovich Mihaljov}, title = {От и до: протоконцептуальные истоки и семантическая динамика предлога «до» в русском языке}, journal = {Language and Method}, volume = {2016}, number = {3}, year = {2016}, issn = {2299-5668}, pages = {69-75},keywords = {phonosemantics; conceptual system; lexical semantics; language origin; semantic prototypes}, abstract = {In accordance with the view that language is iconic in origin the author assumes that the primary lexical and semantic core of language was formed by iconic lexoids (monosyllabic prototypes of words) in which an initial consonant sound or a phonotype carries the dominant semiotic weight. Thus, initial consonants occur as prehistoric classifi ers in word structure, while the set of these established primary classes (meanings, categories) could be considered as the protoconceptual system of language. The study of the phonosemantic space of Russian words with the initial d- made it possible to defi ne the location of the Russian do (preposition and prefi x) meanings in this space and their descent from the semantic prototype “Pull” or from the mere index gesture of the dental articulation.}, doi = {}, url = {https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/jezyk-i-metoda/article/ot-i-do-protokontseptualnye-istoki-i-semanticheskaia-dinamika-predloga-do-v-russkom-iazyke} }