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

THE MENTAL GROUNDS FOR THE POLYSEMANTIC CHARACTER OF THE VERB

THE MENTAL GROUNDS FOR THE POLYSEMANTIC CHARACTER OF THE VERB


Author:  Ekaterina E. Kalinina

Affiliation:  Herzen State Pedagogical University

Abstract
The article gives an outline on the problem of interaction of the lexical meaning of the English verb and the categorial meaning of the Present Perfect tense aspect form in the context. Due to the complicated character of the predicate meaning, the double nature of the Perfect form and the polysemantic structure of the English verb, this interaction presents a certain challenge and has peculiar features, some of them being revealed and described as examples taken from the British and American mass media sources.

Keywords:  сategorial meaning, lexical meaning, interaction of meanings, the process of meaning integration, categorization, integrative predicate meaning, the Perfect tense aspect form.

Pages:  116-119

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