The Church Slavonic Lexical Units in Russian Folk Ballads and Songs

The article is devoted to the lexical and phraseological features of the latest folk ballads and songs. It discusses the penetration of the church slavonic lexical units in folk ballads and songs.It also studies the mechanisms of semantic shifts that have occurred in this layer of vocabularyin texts generated by the epoch of sentimentalism and romanticism associated with the phenomenon of secularization of culture.