STATE AS A LINGUISTIC KNOWLEDGE FORMAT

STATE AS A LINGUISTIC KNOWLEDGE FORMAT

Author:  A.V. Pavlova

Affiliation:  Derzhavin Tambov State University

Abstract:  The goal of the paper is to consider STATE as a linguistic knowledge format. The concept of STATE is a complex propositional structure that includes “the bearer of the state + state characteristics”. The main conceptual characteristics of STATE are “stability”, “duration”, “the passive bearer of the state”, “generalized activity”, “localization in space”. States have no referents in real world, they gain their meaning being related with their bearer, so they contain inferential knowledge providing secondary representation of knowledge about the world. The revealed modus character of STATE brings in focus the interpretative stative function of linguistic cognition which is the basis of forming the category of state. Antecedence of realization of stative function, predicativity and conceptual relatedness with the cognitive domain of the bearer of the state are the principal criteria for defining the centre and periphery of the category of state. Words of the category of state functioning only as predicatives occupy the central position in the category of state. They represent the following semantic domains: physical state (akin, alive, asleep, awake, etc.), emotional state (ablush, aflutter, afraid, aghast, agog, ashamed, etc.), location in space, the state of motion, state as a generalized activity (aground, ajar, askew, adrift, afloat, astray, astir, etc.). The close periphery has its pivotal part structured by the adjectives and verbs possessing the stative meaning. The far periphery of the category of state is represented with word formative suffixes –ment, -dom, -hood. Their place is defined by their dependence on the root morpheme and the secondary character of expressing the stative meaning.

Keywords:  modus concept STATE, the category of state, state linguistic knowledge format, interpretative stative function of linguistic cognition.

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