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

GRAMMATICALIZATION IN THE SYSTEM OF PRONOMINAL WORDS OF MODERN RUSSIAN AS THE REFLECTION OF GENERAL COGNITIVE PROCESSES

GRAMMATICALIZATION IN THE SYSTEM OF PRONOMINAL WORDS OF MODERN RUSSIAN AS THE REFLECTION OF GENERAL COGNITIVE PROCESSES


Author:  S.V. Sokolova

Abstract
In cognitive linguistics grammaticalization is considered as an effect of general cognitive processes, such as generalization and typification. The present paper tackles particular cases of gram-maticalization as it is reflected by certain categorematic words of modern Russian that develop prono-minal functions due to their communicative character and their role in discourse arrangement. The semantics of a linguistic unit to a large extent determines its involvement into the grammaticalization process. So, in the main focus of the research are the semantic changes that can be observed in the ana-lyzed words.

Pages:  74-80

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