Dichotomy "Universal/Particular" of Lexical Meaning of Word as Deictic Potential of Indefinite Article
Popova Valeria Borisovna
Academy of Marketing and Social and Information Technology - IMSIT
Submitted: 25.12.2020
Abstract. The paper aims to prove that the indefinite article is a paradigmatic deictic correlating with the lexical meaning of a word and having field structure: nuclear of sustainable non-variable features and periphery of variable ones. Scientific originality of the study lies in the fact that variability is considered as a meta-linguistic feature of the indefinite article. The following conclusions are justified: the indefinite article is a semantic deictic that emphasizes universal features without accentuating specific ones; being a paradigmatic deictic, the indefinite article represents both cataphoric and anaphoric relations, expresses hyponymy as a gender-aspect relation in narrow and broad senses: compatibility of features. Hyponymic relations are observed in associative metaphors, in cases of lexical meaning concretization.
Key words and phrases: неопределенный артикль, вариативность, лексическое значение слова, дихотомия "общее и особенное", дейктик, indefinite article, variability, lexical meaning of word, dichotomy "universal/particular", deictic
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