SPACE GRAMMAR OF CASE: “ATYPICALLY INSTRUMENTAL” PATTERNS IN RUSSIAN

Abstract

The article provides arguments in support of the hypothesis of the integrity of the category of the instrumental case in Russian. Using the example of several "atypically instrumental" patterns, the author shows that “the meaning of the case as such” (A.V. de Groot) exists, and all speech implementations of the case are concrete embodiments of its abstract (semantic) structure, which is based on an elementary spatial relation – a semantic primitive THROUGH, perceived by the Russian language consciousness abstractly, regardless of the nature of the object being crossed. The article complements the research on the role of spatial relations in the development of grammatical categories of sentence.

Keywords

• падеж
• инструменталис
• семантическая структура
• когнитивная грамматика
• пространственные отношения
• образная схема
• движение
• путь
• case
• instrumental
• semantic structure
• cognitive grammar
• spatial relations
• image schema
• movement
• path