PREPOSITIONAL-CASE WORD FORMS OF DEFINITE NOUNS AND A SECONDARY NOMINAL PREDICATION

Abstract

Key words: proposition, secondary predication, processuality, specific name, coempiral.

This article analyzes the specific functioning of prepositional-case specific word forms of nouns acting as carriers of propositive meaning

in the “non-elementary” simple sentences in elimination of action name. Analyzing the constructions with prepositions “on”, “to”, “after”, “before”, we found that these structures show a close relationship with the semantics of the main predicate, background knowledge of the speakers necessary for actualization of propositive syntaxemes with semantics of specific names. Mutual awareness of communicants creates the necessary conditions for the elimination of propositive name. These structures are more closely connected with macro context, if compare them with verbal constructions and secondary predication, expressed by the name of action. In constructions with specific names it can be realized “implicitness supposed knowledge” in which the explication of the nominal meaning of the secondary predication does not match our understanding of the prototypical situation. A situation of “virtual knowledge” is a feature in the analyzed structures. Such constructions taken out of sentences, out of context, are different due to semantic uncertainty. Propositive meaning of a particular name is actualized primarily by the main predicate semantics, but the semantics of a particular name as a means of actualizing the procedural semantics is of secondary predication in these structures.