Structure of the Semantic Field of Procedurality in the Ukrainian Language

Abstract.

STRUCTURE OF THE CONCEPTUAL FIELD OF PROCEDURALITY IN THE UKRAINIAN LANGUAGE

Olesia Sulyma

Department of Ukrainian Language of National Pedagogical Dragomanov University, Kyiv, Ukraine.

Abstract

Background: The study of the conceptual field of procedurality is actual in modern linguistics due to insufficient study of this problem. Outlining the specifics of the semantics of procedurality, the means of its implementation, the allocation of central and peripheral components of the field allows us to distinguish a separate, procedural group of verb semantics in contrast to the available classifications of verbs in the scientific literature.

The purpose: The purpose of the analysis is to investigate the conceptual field of procedurality, the center, near and far periphery of its means of verbalization.

Results: The conceptual field of procedurality is a complex structure that covers elements of different structure: from tokens to a complex syntactic whole. The center of the field includes verb vocabulary that directly denotes a procedural feature implemented outside the will of the subject. This group includes verbs related to changes in the state of nature, objects, phenomena, persons, verbs of sound, smell, social processes, and so on.

The near periphery includes verbs that lose the main seme – mostly actionality – and acquire procedural semantics. These verbs are characterized by a high degree of semantic bleaching and meta­phorization. In addition, the near periphery is also formed by nouns that denote natural phe­nomena that appear in simple sentences, and idioms with the main component - the procedural verb.

The far periphery is formed by idioms with the main components of different part-of-speech affiliation, descriptive constructions, correlated with sentences and a complex syntactic whole.

The far periphery of the conceptual field of procedurality is constantly replenished by creating descriptive structures in the texts of artistic style, and therefore further research can be directed to this area.

Key words: conceptual field, archiseme, center, periphery, lexeme, idiom, mononuclear sen­tence.

Vitae

Olesia Sulyma is Candidate of Philological Sciences, Associate Professor at the Department of Ukrainian Language of National Pedagogical Dragomanov University. Her areas of research interests include functional linguistics, cognitive linguistics, linguistic pragmatics, and psycholinguistics.

Correspondence: olesiasulyma@gmail.com

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