Basic Concepts of Motivology (Fascicle I)

Abstract

In the present study, we aimed to introduce into Romanian linguistic circulation a number
of Motivology terms, a new linguistic discipline, and its dictionary not only includes the
basic concept of Motivology, but also the terms from general linguistics and from other
fields of linguistics – semasiology, onomasiology, derivation, linguopoetics, lexicography,
etc., which are closely related to the theory of word motivation and stable polylexical
units. The examples are brought, in particular, from the Romanian linguistic material, in
order to demonstrate in such a way the necessity of researching language facts under their
motivational aspect. At the same time, the terms proposed for the familiarization of all
those interested in the given problem come to elucidate the research aspects of Motivology,
which aims to study language phenomena from a different angle than the one carried out so far.