M. Languages of Slavic Cultures, 2009. — 568 s. — ISBN 978-5-9551-0304-4 . — (Studia philologica). The book contains works of the last ten years on theoretical semantics and system lexicography, partly continuing traditional topics for these areas, partly devoted to relatively new problems that arose in the process of writing a "New explanatory dictionary of synonyms of the Russian language" .. The book is divided into two volumes, two parts each. The first part deals with the general problems of lexical semantics (the principles of the Moscow semantic school and the conceptual apparatus of system lexicography). in the second - semantic paradigmatics (mainly lexical synonymy and lexical ambiguity) ; in the third - semantic syntagmatics (syntactic control, lexical-semantic compatibility and lexical functions, perifrasing rules, syntagmatic rules for the interaction of values) ; in the fourth - the links between vocabulary and grammar (the interaction of vocabulary and grammar, the principles of the organization of the center and periphery in language systems, lexicographic interpretation of grammatical categories) . The book is addressed to specialists in the field of general linguistics , Russistics, semantics, syntax and lexicography , But it can also be read by beginner linguists ,. because it is popular and with a large number of publicly available examples sets out the entire conceptual and terminological apparatus , necessary for the acquisition of material. Keywords: semantics, system lexicography, integral description of language, lexical synonymy, ambiguity, management, lexical-semantic compatibility, perifrazing, semantic rules, interaction of vocabulary and grammar.