TYPOLOGY OF FORMS OF FIGURATIVE UNITS OF OLD RUSSIAN LANGUAGE.

This article focuses on the typology of internal forms of figurative units of ancient language, i.e. lexical units, capable of expressing content through visual representation of the image with the ability to produce a visual representation of the object called. Figurative units are always an indirect category, characterized by semantic duality, which creates a visual representation called realities. The concept of the inner form of speech is addressed under the scientific direction of the Tomsk Motivology School, in which the inner form is defined as material and ideal components of word structure, including shape and motivational meaning. As figurative units are analysed from the standpoint of the theory of lexical motivation, the extent of their internal forms of typology is based on the nature of the motivational meaning as reflected /unrecognised in the motivational significance of relations of similarity. In the Old Russian two groups represent figurative units: a metaphorical inner form of speech and non- metaphorical inner form of the word. Figurative units with non- metaphorical inner form, in turn, shared their words with the metonymic inner form, with the internal symbolic form, with the visual- sensory inner form and contaminated the internal form. The primary step in the figurative category is recognition of the concrete sense perception. Figurative units, the internal shape of which is based on a concrete sense perception, were not uniform in terms of the nature of sensory signals as the foundation of the future image. It could be tactile, auditory, visual impressions, or onomatopoeia. The symbolic nature of the inner form of figurative units is associated with the specifics of mythological thinking, characterized by indivisibility and imagery. Symbolization reflects the opposition inherent in the ancient way of thinking, and combined with either a metaphor or metonymy, making the inner form of the figurative units contaminated, and the syncretic nature of the inner form predetermined the change of its type. Figurative units of the ancient language had mainly an explicit internal form, which is associated with their derivatives. Accordingly, non- derivative words shaped the implicit internal form. The morphological and semantic structure of the word in the Old Russian language can be explicit and implicit, and metaphorical, non- metaphorical, but in fact, and in other cases, it served as a figurative expression of the word.