Семантическая парадигматика региональных существительных и прилагательных в дискурсивном пространстве американского варианта английского языка

Abstract

The article provides description of semantic properties of regional American nouns and adjectives, possessing different paradigmatic and diatopic characteristics. Words of dialectal origin with a wide functional scope predominate among American regionalisms. Comparative analysis of nouns and adjectives reveals wider synonymic links and semantic variety of substantives, which often combine standard and regiolect meanings in their polysemantic structure, developing on the basis of various semantic associations.