SOME THEORETICAL PROBLEMS IN THE DESCRIPTION OF RUSSIAN SEMANTICS

The article is devoted to the study of a few theoretical problems in russian semantics. After reminding shortly of the origin and etymology of the concept of “semantics”, we tried to sort out its linguistic definition with a historical overview. Since our paper deals with russian linguistics, we have decided to quote a few Russian scholars with rich investigations in that field such as I.A. Sternin Z.G. Popova, Y.D. Apresyan, R.S. Ginzurg, V.G. Gak, E.V. Kuznetsova etc. The issues posed by the study of russian linguistics is still up to date. Problems such as the evolution of semantics in the 20th century, the scale of semantic derivations or the problem of semantic calques among other have been raised and discussed widely.