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| 1 | The article deals with one of the most vexed problems in modern Germanic studies – the problem of the Konjunktiv of indirect speech. The attention is focused on the status of the Konjunktive of indirect speech and the peculiarities of its functioning in the system of the morphological and the syntactic category of speech type of Modern German. | 1190 | ||||
| 2 | The paper addresses the development of the German verbal subsystem. Comparative-contrastive analysis of Old-, Middle- and Early-New Upper German languages identifies typological specifics of verbal categories and types of their interactions. | 1302 | ||||
| 3 | The paper reviews the phenomenon of syncretism and homonymy, suppletivism and heteronymy; explains their varying import in the system of the German language synchronically and diachronically. | 1279 | ||||
| 4 | The paper outlines the typological significance of syncretism, which reflects, in the synchronic plain, the on-going change in the inter-level relations in the system of German, and manifests the shift of the language type. | 1249 | ||||
| 5 | The paper reviews the archaic inflection model – suppletive, and identifies the status of the hetero-stemic units, forms of the same word, as heteronymic or suppletive forms, depending on their systemic correspondence to the sets of irregular verbs; illustrates the need to differentiate the process of supplitivism from the resultant suppletive state, and the role of the latter in defining the productivity of morphological categories in Modern German. | 1316 | ||||
| 6 | Based on the Russian and German languages data the paper reviews the phenomenon of language redundancy, distinguishing between the functional and obligatory redundancy. Within the latter, the author differentiates between the systemic and structural-systemic redundancy; exposing the role of structural-systemic redundancy synchronically and diachronically, as well as its typological import into characterizing the morphological categories. | 1294 | ||||
| 7 | The paper discusses typological relevance of different types of verbal paradigms on the basis of the differencing method of verbal categories description in modern German. The types of verbal paradigms are viewed via the prism of typologically relevant changes occurring within the general tendency of the language system development. | 1531 | ||||
| 8 | In this article with special reference to the verb subsystem of the German language the expediency of applying the differentiative method of describing morphological categories in linguistic prognostics has been justifi ed, since it provides the means of revealing productive categories and thus determining the prospects of the development of a morphological subsystem. Keywords: unifi cation and differentiation methods of description, morphological categories, syncretism, homonymy, hierarchy of categories, productivity | 1265 | ||||
| 9 | The article deals with the “Mode” concept as a model of linguistic structured knowledge projection of German ethnicity and as a component of its linguistic view of the world. With the help of language-based methods the structure of this conceptual model is described and the originality of its content that reflects cultural and historical stereotypes of German ethnicity is demonstrated. Keywords: concept, fashion, linguistic view of the world, cognitive view of the world, kernel, interpretation field, key lexeme | 1243 | ||||
| 10 | The article deals with the “Mode” concept in the cognition of the German ethnos as a component of its cognitive view of the world. With the help of experimental methods, and namely, the associative and receptive experiments, the description of the structure and content of this concept in relation to its language model that allows showing the model of the concept “Mode” in a dynamic context is given. Keywords: concept, fashion, cognitive view of the world, kernel, interpretation field, experimental methods, dynamic aspect | 1048 | ||||
| 11 | The article deals with the means of representing an inexact measure of distance, namely, a lexeme expressing the meaning of “шаг” in Russian, German and English languages. The concrete language material shows the difficulties emerging in the process of the lexemes in question being translated from Russian and German into English and the ways of overcoming the difficulties in accordance with the revealed peculiar features of the semantics and agreement regularities of the lexemes analyzed in each language. Keywords: anthropocentric means, inexact measures of distance, lexemes “шаг”, “Schritt”, “pace”, “step”, “stride”, “remove” | 1112 | ||||
| 12 | This article is written in the diachronic approach and is devoted to the development of modal semantics of possibility. The comparative analysis of formation of the modal verbs expressing various shades of modality of potentiality is based on Gothic, Old and Middle High German texts. On the basis of this analysis and the use of statistical methods of research the process of decategorization – transition of the functions of expression of possibility from morphological category, i. e. moods, to lexical-grammatical means, i. e. preterite-present verbs – was shown. The use of the lexical-grammatical means allows to express the potential internal modality more differentially. Keywords: modality of possibility; Gothic, Old, Middle High German; preterite-present verbs; optative; decategorization; the verbs kцnnen and dьrfen | 1017 | ||||
| 13 | The article deals with the means of representing an inexact measure of liquids, namely, a lexeme expressing the meaning of «глоток» in Russian, German and English languages. The concrete language material of Russian, German and English dictionaries as well as the data of Russian National Corpus, Leipzig and Mannheim German Language Corpuses, British National Corpus taken into consideration, differences in using the given lexemes in the three compared languages were defined and the peculiarities of their combinability and semantics revealed. On the basis of the comparative analysis of these peculiarities the difficulties emerging in the process of the Russian and German lexemes «глоток» и “Schluck” being translated into English have been ascertained and the specific methods of their translation suggested. Keywords: anthropocentric means, inexact measures of liquid material, lexemes «глоток», “Schluck”, “drop”, “sip”, “swallow”, “gulp”, “mouthful”, “drink”, “swig” | 1094 | ||||
| 14 | The article focusses on the means of expression of modality of potentiality and wish in Gothic and a tendency that developed in its system has been determined. The tendency shows the function of expressing the meanings of possibility, necessity and wish from grammatical means, i. e. moods, transferring to the lexical ones, i. e. verbs. To explain this process, the “weakest” parts of the modal subsystem of Gothic are being established. They are involved in changes: these are optative, imperative and preterite-present verbs. The analysis of various “shades” of meaning of potentiality and wish, verbalised by the contemporary lexical and grammatical means allowed to establish semantic relations of variability between grammatical and lexical means as well as within the former ones thus it allowed to define the status of preterit-present verbs involved in the process of appearing modal verbs in Gothic as means expressing the internal modality. Keywords: preterite-present verbs, optative, imperative, possibility, necessity, wish, variability, internal modality | 1132 | ||||
| 15 | The article deals with the peculiarities of expressing the category of ‘measure’ in Modern English, which possesses a large gamut of various measures and classifiers, e. g. container measures, group classifiers, mensural classifiers, etc. To gain a better insight into the systemic peculiarities of the conceptual category of ‘measure’ the revealed linguistic means have been gathered into certain groups, which form the structure of the functional-semantic field representing the category under discussion. The core of the field is formed by the terms of the metric system of measurements and the traditional units of measure used in English-speaking countries. Of special interest are evaluative (inaccurate and/ or unspecified) measures, representing the peripheral zones of the above-mentioned category. Keywords: category of measure, classifier, accurate measurement, traditional system of measures, evaluative measurement, functional-semantic field | 1202 | ||||
| 16 | The research of means verbalizing the modal semantics, and in particular of modal verbs remains urgent in modern linguistics as they express modal values of the possibility and need which are ones of the most important in the cognitive and communicative relation. In its turn, cognitive and communicative needs of society remain variable and that causes semantic function extension of the language means, which are constantly to respond to the needs of society noted above. In this regard the semantics studying of the verb müssen is especially significant. The purpose of the research presented in this article is to reveal specifics and to define the mechanisms of the past and current semantic changes of the verb müssen that have ensured its development as a modal verb according to cognitive and communicative needs of the German society. To that effect the original Old, Middle, Early New and New High German texts were studied. In the selected examples from the given texts by means of the method of semantic interpretation and using the method of contextual analysis the meanings of preterite-present verb müssen functioning as modal verb in the correspondent periods of the development of German language were determined. Due to the consistent usage of the method of comparison and collation in the process of analysis of the meanings their similarities and differences were determined. For more detailed reflection on the transformation development tendency in the semantics of the verb müssen appearing in modal function the methods of mathematical statistics were also used. As a result of the conducted research semantic peculiarities of the verb müssen functioning in various periods of German were specified and the mechanism of the past and current changes is defined. The basic semantic transformation mechanism of the verb müssen into both modal objective and, from Early New High German, into modal subjective semantic is context-induced reinterpretation. Keywords: müssen, subjective modality, objective modality, necessity, probability, context-induced reinterpretation | 1220 | ||||