Abstract:
The article distinguishes the “semantic features“ and the “systematic relations“ in the case of kinship denominations (in Bulgarian language). The semantic ones are the features related, on one hand, to the individual sememe, and on the other hand – with the semantic structure of the word. As a result of the performed analysis we define the nuclear seme in the case of kinship denominations. We note the existence of polysemy, some denominations for blood kinship get in the terminology scope of marital kinship, as well as the presence of hidden possessiveness when using some kinship denominations. The analysis performed of the kinship denominations could be lexicographically applied.
