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  • November 1, 2017
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CONCEPTUAL FOUNDATIONS OF INVARIANT AND DIFFERENTIAL SEMANTICS OF SPEECH UNITS WITH BI-TRANSITIVE CONSTRUCTION

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Abstract

The article describes and systematizes speech units formed on the basis of bi-transitive construction, identifies invariant and differential semantics of their components motivating the general meaning of a statement. The analysis of factual material allowed the author to deduce the prototypic proposition of bi-transitive construction and derivative propositions correlating with the semantic classes of statements objectifying this construction. Within each semantic class of speech units with bi-transitive construction the author establishes and interprets typical situations, discovers cognitive mechanisms of their verbalization, identifies and summarizes semantic restrictions on lexical structure of bi-transitive construction.

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Author information

Dana Gisovna Makoeva

Institute for Computer Science and Problems of Regional Management of “Kabardino-Balkar Scientific Center of Russian Academy of Sciences”

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  • Published: November 1, 2017.

Keywords

  • двупереходная конструкция
  • концептуальные параметры
  • аргументная структура
  • пропозиция
  • агенсный аргумент
  • пациенсный аргумент
  • реципиентный аргумент
  • глагольный предикат
  • bi-transitive construction
  • conceptual parameters
  • argument structure
  • proposition
  • agent argument
  • patience argument
  • recipient argument
  • verbal predicate

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