Abstract
The article deals with analysis of structural and semantic peculiar features of non-prototypical constructions Nperson hate ing-form and Nperson hate Infinitive that categorize both the regret and emotional-evaluative attitude situations. The research is made from concept to form. Firstly, models of prototypical situations of the emotional-evaluative attitude and of regret are built. The prototypical situation model enables to distinguish language means and grammatical constructions expected in speaker's verbalization of the situations and to determine prototypical constructions, categorizing these prototypical situations in the best way. Non-prototypical construction-blends are analyzed within the theory of mental spaces and conceptual integration. The basic method of the theory makes it possible to divide a situation categorized by a speaker into mental spaces and single out even the most unusual cases of categorization. Construction-blends borrow lexical and grammatical means of prototypical constructions of the regret and emotional-evaluative attitude creating a unique structure that is inequivalent to the prototypical constructions either semantically or grammatically. Analysis within the theory enables observing sematic differences between non-prototypical constructions Nperson hate ing-form and Nperson hate Infinitive and proves that all sentence members equally contribute to a sentence meaning building. It enables speaking of the holistic approach to the sentence stud
Highlights
After the anthropocentric paradigm had come into linguistics, scientists become interested in ways of verbalizing the inner and outer world of a person by means of a language
Studies within the framework of cognitive grammar wariness that when a person finds himself / herself in this or that situation he / she categorizes the situation, adapting it to a definite prototype – an abstract scheme [1, 2]. It is verbalized by a concrete set of grammatical constructions
The research object of the investigation is nonprototypical constructions verbalizing the situation of the emotional-evaluative attitude and the situation of regret
Summary
After the anthropocentric paradigm had come into linguistics, scientists become interested in ways of verbalizing the inner and outer world of a person by means of a language. Studies within the framework of cognitive grammar wariness that when a person finds himself / herself in this or that situation he / she categorizes the situation, adapting it to a definite prototype – an abstract scheme [1, 2]. It is verbalized by a concrete set of grammatical constructions. The research object of the investigation is nonprototypical constructions verbalizing the situation of the emotional-evaluative attitude and the situation of regret. The data for the study were taken from British National Corpus
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