NATIONAL SPECIFICITY OF SEMANTICS OF SUBSTANTIVES DOUBT AND UNCERTAINTY IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Kopus Tatyana Leonidovna
Ussuriysk Pedagogical Institute
Abstract. In the article the linguistic-cultural specificity of semantics of substantives doubt and uncertainty in the English language is considered. Semantic-syntactic differentiation of the meanings of doubt and uncertainty is given from the point of complex analysis of linguistic factors: distributive, derivational, etymological, semantic, comparative, statistic ones.
Key words and phrases: лингвокультурная специфика лексики, семантика сомнения, семантика неуверенности, семантический анализ, doubt, uncertainty, английский язык, linguistic-cultural specificity of vocabulary, semantics ofdoubt, semantics of uncertainty, semantic analysis, doubt, uncertainty, the English language
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