TY - JOUR TI - От и до: протоконцептуальные истоки и семантическая динамика предлога «до» в русском языке AU - Mihaljov, Andrej Borisovich TI - От и до: протоконцептуальные истоки и семантическая динамика предлога «до» в русском языке AB - 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. VL - 2016 IS - 3 PY - 2016 SN - 2299-5668 C1 - 2391-9981 SP - 69 EP - 75 UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/jezyk-i-metoda/article/ot-i-do-protokontseptualnye-istoki-i-semanticheskaia-dinamika-predloga-do-v-russkom-iazyke KW - phonosemantics KW - conceptual system KW - lexical semantics KW - language origin KW - semantic prototypes