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Modelling Notional Agreement Semantics
- Authors: Borzilov A.D.1, Salkova M.A.1
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Affiliations:
- Moscow State Linguistic University
- Issue: No 4(898) (2025)
- Pages: 17-25
- Section: Linguistics
- URL: https://bakhtiniada.ru/2542-2197/article/view/291836
- ID: 291836
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Abstract
The aim of the research is to discover a possibility to apply semantic modelling to the explanation of notional agreement accepting variability in the expression of the grammatical category of number of the predicate, with the subject being a potentially ambiguous compositional noun. The methods are quantitave and qualitative corpus analyses as well as semantic interpretation. On the basis of selected study material from the British National Corpus (1389 cases) models are built, principles and mechanisms of similar constructions’ functioning are researched, the influence of discourse pragmatics included. The results of the study confirm the appearance of contextually relevant shifts in the semantics of the compositional noun and its ability to perform different semantic roles reflecting possible reinterpretations in meaning and its adaptation to the semantics of the verbal component.
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Aleksandr Dmitrievich Borzilov
Moscow State Linguistic University
Author for correspondence.
Email: adborz@mail.ru
Post-graduate student of the Chair of the Grammar and the History of the English language, Department of the English language
Russian FederationMarina Alexeevna Salkova
Moscow State Linguistic University
Email: smartletters@mail.ru
PhD (Philology), Associate Professor, Head of the Chair of the Grammar and the History of the English language, Department of the English language
Russian FederationReferences
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