On Actionality / Inactionality of the Nominative Semantic Component and Its Actualization in Adjectival Word-Combination

Abstract

The article considers peculiarities of linguistic expression and textual realization of the category of attributive. Certain semantic regularities of attributive word combination are investigated from the point of view of the presence of the action component in the structure of meaning of substantive and factors of its actualization. The question of the fruitfulness of semantic atomization to identify the nature and success of the process of matching attributive and substantive is raised. Special attention is paid to the ways of semantic inventory of components. It is emphasized that the discourse-speech actualization of attributives undergoes various modifications, manifested in the diversity and ambiguity of semantic links of interacting words. The relevance of the study is determined by the fact that the perspective of consideration and scientific approach to the analysis of semantic relations arising between adjective and substantive word may vary. The novelty of the study is seen simultaneously in the proposed systematic approach to the interpretation of principles of actualization of semantic features of the members of the adjective-substantive phrase, and in the provision of evidence base that demonstrates and confirms the conditions of implementation of the action component. The determinism of functional-semantic diversity by factors associated with the characteristics of the component structures of the matched tokens is proved. It is concluded that it is possible to identify the relevant mechanism of actualization of actionality / non-actionality in an attributive phrase under the condition of semantic atomization not only at the level of a substantive element.

Keywords

• action component
• functional-semantic variation
• adjective
• nominal
• actualization
• intra-word