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MEANS OF EXPRESSING THE CATEGORY OF DEFICIENCY IN THE NOVEL “THE MINDS OF BILLY MILLIGAN” BY D. KEYES // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2016. Issue 10 (175). P. 24-27

The article deals with the analysis of means of expressing the semantic field of the category of deficiency in the novel “The Minds of Billy Milligan” by Daniel Keyes in English. The category of deficiency includes two main components: physiological and mental. The notional category of deficiency is represented by the structure in the semantic field with the core and peripheral parts. The core of the semantic field of the mental deficiency includes three components: 1) medical terms of mental disorders; 2) lexis meaning underdevelopment of mental abilities; 3) lexical means expressing psychic disorders. The peripheral part of this mental unit has not been represented for special consideration in this work. Means of multiple personality disorder component within mental constituent of the category of deficiency in English have been presented. The interconnections between mental component of the category of deficiency and legal-regulatory, moral-ethic aberrations in English have been observed.

Keywords: semantic category, semantic base, deficiency, mental component, lexeme, set phrase