TEMPORAL SYNTAXEMES AS A MEANS OF EVENT CONCEPTUALIZATION IN THE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE

Abstract

The article examines temporal syntaxemes as means of contextual interpretation of an event in the Russian language. The aim of the study is to determine the role of temporal syntaxemes in the semantic organization of an event within the structure of an utterance, while preserving their basic temporal meaning. The material of the study consists of a card index of 200 utterances extracted by purposive sampling from the Russian National Corpus. Four groups of temporal syntaxemes are analyzed: temporative, terminative, dimensive, and distributive syntaxemes. It is shown that temporative syntaxemes express the temporal correlation of an event; terminative syntaxemes express a temporal limit; dimensive syntaxemes express temporal duration; and distributive syntaxemes express the recurrence or distribution of an action in time. It is established that resultivity, processuality, boundedness, duration, and recurrence as semantic-syntactic characteristics of an utterance are actualized not by the temporal syntaxeme in isolation, but through the interaction of its basic temporal semantics with lexical-semantic content, predicative structure, and context. In the cognitive aspect, a temporal syntaxeme is considered as a means of actualizing the temporal parameter of an event in its linguistic representation.