Tambov
All-Russian academic journal
“Issues of Cognitive Linguistics”

IN GENESIS OF LANGUAGE, OR REFLECTION ON NOMINA ABSTRACTA

IN GENESIS OF LANGUAGE, OR REFLECTION ON NOMINA ABSTRACTA


Author:  E.S. Kubryakova

Abstract
The article considers the process of conceptualisation of reality in phylogenesis and ontogenesis. The idea about the role of semiosis in formation of primary and secondary reality of mind is introduced. Special attention is paid to the role of abstract nouns in conceptual systems and structures reconstruction and Nomina Abstracta are described as «mind-grasped entities».

Pages:  5-14

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