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The thesis is devoted to the research of terminology of Ukrainian library science and
bibliography for the recent 25 years, which allowed to comprehend its national
distinguishing features, to establish main tendencies of its development, to use the
achievements of leading specialists in this field as well as international experience, to
formulate methodological base for this terminology standardization and to define the
degree of its compliance with actual professional needs.
It was found that full-fledged development of the system of library terms in the
early XX century became possible due to the activities of three centers: Lviv, Odessa and
Kyiv. The Bibliographic Commission of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences together with
the relevant commission of Shevchenko Scientific Society laid the foundations of the
modern terminology of Ukrainian library science and bibliography, however, the formation of modern national branch-wise terminology commenced only in 1991. It is
emphasized that current Ukrainian librarian-bibliographical terminology has made a
confident transition to the information technology period and innovation, which has
directly affected the branch-wise terminology.
It is proved that Ukrainian librarian-bibliographical terminology of the beginning of
the XXI century is an important part of the terminology stock of Ukrainian language that
constitutes an extensive and clear system of names (2552 units are collected), grouped into
thematic groups of vocabulary, which experiences both constant and intensive
replenishment by new terms and loss of old or obsolete terms.
It is emphasized that hyper-hyponymic relations are the main factor in the structural
organization of the terms for library science and bibliography. It is defined that the
branched paradigmatic and syntagmatic connections between the terms cause strongly-
marked lexical and semantic processes in this system: synonymy, antonymy, paronymy,
polysemy. It is the first attempt in Ukrainian linguistics to describe comprehensively
paronyms in the term system of Ukrainian library science and bibliography.
The work covers the issue of term structure which is divided into: a) simple affix
words, b) compound words (composite words, “yukstapozit”, abbreviations) and c) terms –
word combinations. The main ways of word formation in the ULBT have been analyzed;
they are morphological (affixation, stem formation, compounding, abbreviation) and
b) non-morphological (primarily lexical-semantic). The morphological method of term
formation is represented by all types of affixing method; however suffixation and
prefixation remain the most productive among them. The issue of the structure of terms in
the modern ULBT has been studied. Analytical terms (or compound nominations, term as
word combinations) are the most common. The terms-word combination of the modern
ULBT are divided into two-, three-, four- and multicomponent ones (the latter consists of
five or more components).
The thesis substantinates the statement that the processes of acquisition of term-
neologisms have yet undergone neither a proper critical linguistic assessment, nor an
objective study, as well as professional recommendations on the need and expediency of
their use. In return, researchers only describe and establish lexical-word-forming
innovations, but do not try to help speakers understand the negative effects some
borrowings and derived words formed on their model make on the lexical-word-forming
system of the Ukrainian standard language; they do not form national priorities in word-
formation development of borrowings. It is distinguished that the following completely
opposite processes are taking place in the ULBT: 1) strengthening of historically formed
Ukrainian word-forming variants; 2) removal of Russian language like word-forming
types; 3) being affected by globalization (especially in the case of lexical borrowings)
there is a noticeable prevalence of word-forming ways of creating compounds and
compound abbreviated words from English language, as well as numerous abbreviations.
Therefore, the recent processes of term formation require clear spelling rules.
Key words: antonymy, archaicism of a term, hyper-hyponymy, neologism,
paronymy, polysemy, synonymy, spelling rules, structural model, terminology of library
science and bibliography, thematic group, Ukrainian library science and bibliography,
word formation.