Номинативна метафора (върху материал от славянските езици)

The paper discusses а model for the formation of nominative metaphors as subtype of the substantive metaphors. The model is based on the procedure of componential analysis. The phenomenon under discussion is illustrated analysing the lexical field of body parts in Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian Serbo-Croatian, Polish and Czech. The similarities and contrasts in the nominative metaphoric meanings of the words in the analysed languages provide evidence for certain hypotheses concerning their semantic typology.